SeqShield: A Behavioral Analysis Approach to Uncover Rootkits

Rootkits are among the most elusive types of malware, capable of bypassing traditional static analysis methods due to their metamorphic behavior. Signature-based detection techniques struggle against these threats, necessitating a shift toward dynamic analysis approaches. We propose SeqShield, a...

Demystifying Feature Engineering in Malware Analysis of API Call Sequences

Machine learning ML has been widely used to analyze API call sequences in malware analysis, which typically requires the expertise of domain specialists to extract relevant features from raw data. The extracted features play a critical role in malware analysis. Traditional feature extraction is...