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CMS
2010
207views Communications» more  CMS 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Statistical Detection of Malicious PE-Executables for Fast Offline Analysis
While conventional malware detection approaches increasingly fail, modern heuristic strategies often perform dynamically, which is not possible in many applications due to related ...
Ronny Merkel, Tobias Hoppe, Christian Krätzer...
IEEEARES
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Detection of Spyware by Mining Executable Files
Spyware represents a serious threat to confidentiality since it may result in loss of control over private data for computer users. This type of software might collect the data and...
Raja Khurram Shahzad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas La...
ML
2010
ACM
155views Machine Learning» more  ML 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
On the infeasibility of modeling polymorphic shellcode - Re-thinking the role of learning in intrusion detection systems
Current trends demonstrate an increasing use of polymorphism by attackers to disguise their exploits. The ability for malicious code to be easily, and automatically, transformed in...
Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, ...
GECCO
2009
Springer
162views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 9 months ago
On the appropriateness of evolutionary rule learning algorithms for malware detection
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classiï...
M. Zubair Shafiq, S. Momina Tabish, Muddassar Faro...
GECCO
2009
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Are evolutionary rule learning algorithms appropriate for malware detection?
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classiï...
M. Zubair Shafiq, S. Momina Tabish, Muddassar Faro...