LLM-FS: Zero-Shot Feature Selection for Effective and Interpretable Malware Detection

Feature selection FS remains essential for building accurate and interpretable detection models, particularly in high-dimensional malware datasets. Conventional FS methods such as Extra Trees, Variance Threshold, Tree-based models, Chi-Squared tests, ANOVA, Random Selection, and Sequential...

MeLeMaD: Adaptive Malware Detection Via Chunk-Wise Feature Selection and Meta-Learning

Confronting the substantial challenges of malware detection in cybersecurity necessitates solutions that are both robust and adaptable to the ever-evolving threat environment. The paper introduces Meta Learning Malware Detection MeLeMaD, a novel framework leveraging the adaptability and...

ByteShield: Adversarially Robust End-To-End Malware Detection through Byte Masking

Research has proven that end-to-end malware detectors are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In response, the research community has proposed defenses based on randomized and derandomized smoothing. However, these techniques remain susceptible to attacks that insert large adversarial payloads. To...

Clustering Malware at Scale: A First Full-Benchmark Study

Recent years have shown that malware attacks still happen with high frequency. Malware experts seek to categorize and classify incoming samples to confirm their trustworthiness or prove their maliciousness. One of the ways in which groups of malware samples can be identified is through malware...