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...

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...

Efficient Adversarial Malware Defense Via Trust-Based Raw Override and Confidence-Adaptive Bit-Depth Reduction

The deployment of robust malware detection systems in big data environments requires careful consideration of both security effectiveness and computational efficiency. While recent advances in adversarial defenses have demonstrated strong robustness improvements, they often introduce computationa...