Decoding the Secrets of Machine Learning in Malware Classification: A
Deep Dive into Datasets, Feature Extraction, and Model Performance

Decoding the Secrets of Machine Learning in Malware Classification: A Deep Dive into Datasets, Feature Extraction, and Model Performance

27 July 2023

Antonino Vitale

Davide Balzarotti

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MalMixer: Few-Shot Malware Classification with Retrieval-Augmented Semi-Supervised Learning Eric Li Yifan Zhang Yu Huang Kevin Leach 83 1 0 20 Sep 2024
Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence of Malware Evasive Techniques L. Maffia Dario Nisi Platon Kotzias Giovanni Lagorio Simone Aonzo Davide Balzarotti 26 16 0 21 Dec 2021
MOTIF: A Large Malware Reference Dataset with Ground Truth Family Labels R. Joyce Dev Amlani B. Hamilton Edward Raff 82 21 0 29 Nov 2021
Towards an Automated Pipeline for Detecting and Classifying Malware through Machine Learning Nicola Loi Claudio Borile Daniele Ucci 32 15 0 10 Jun 2021
Transcending Transcend: Revisiting Malware Classification in the Presence of Concept Drift Federico Barbero Feargus Pendlebury Fabio Pierazzi Lorenzo Cavallaro 48 74 0 08 Oct 2020
Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection Weitang Liu Xiaoyun Wang John Douglas Owens Yixuan Li OODD 271 1,374 0 08 Oct 2020
AVClass2: Massive Malware Tag Extraction from AV Labels Silvia Sebastián Juan Caballero VLM 33 118 0 18 Jun 2020
Challenges in Forecasting Malicious Events from Incomplete Data N. Tavabi A. Abeliuk Negar Mokhberian Jeremy Abramson Kristina Lerman AAML 37 6 0 06 Apr 2020
Neurlux: Dynamic Malware Analysis Without Feature Engineering Chani Jindal Christopher Salls H. Aghakhani Keith Long Christopher Kruegel Giovanni Vigna 117 62 0 24 Oct 2019
Dynamic Malware Analysis with Feature Engineering and Feature Learning Zhaoqi Zhang Panpan Qi Wei Wang 47 116 0 17 Jul 2019
Portable, Data-Driven Malware Detection using Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques on Behavioral Analysis Reports E. Karbab M. Debbabi 34 65 0 26 Dec 2018
TESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time Feargus Pendlebury Fabio Pierazzi Roberto Jordaney Johannes Kinder Lorenzo Cavallaro 63 359 0 20 Jul 2018
EMBER: An Open Dataset for Training Static PE Malware Machine Learning Models Hyrum S. Anderson P. Roth 46 479 0 12 Apr 2018
Malware Detection by Eating a Whole EXE Edward Raff Jon Barker Jared Sylvester Robert Brandon Bryan Catanzaro Charles K. Nicholas 71 546 0 25 Oct 2017
Early Stage Malware Prediction Using Recurrent Neural Networks Matilda Rhode Pete Burnap K. Jones AAML 52 255 0 11 Aug 2017
Reviewer Integration and Performance Measurement for Malware Detection Brad Miller Alex Kantchelian Michael Carl Tschantz Sadia Afroz Rekha Bachwani ... Vaishaal Shankar Tony Wu George Yiu A. Joseph J. D. Tygar 75 77 0 26 Oct 2015
Deep Neural Network Based Malware Detection Using Two Dimensional Binary Program Features Joshua Saxe Konstantin Berlin 54 623 0 13 Aug 2015