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cs.CR2021★ 9 cited

ADVERSARIALuscator: An Adversarial-DRL Based Obfuscator and Metamorphic Malware SwarmGenerator

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Advanced metamorphic malware and ransomware, by using obfuscation, could alter their internal structure with every attack. If such malware could intrude even into any of the IoT ne…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

LSTM Hyper-Parameter Selection for Malware Detection: Interaction Effects and Hierarchical Selection Approach

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) networks have shown great promise in artificial intelligence (AI) based language modeling. Recently, LSTM networks have also become popular for design…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

DRo: A data-scarce mechanism to revolutionize the performance of Deep Learning based Security Systems

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Supervised Deep Learning requires plenty of labeled data to converge, and hence perform optimally for task-specific learning. Therefore, we propose a novel mechanism named DRo (for…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

Identification of Significant Permissions for Efficient Android Malware Detection

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Ritvik Rajvanshi +1

Since Google unveiled Android OS for smartphones, malware are thriving with 3Vs, i.e. volume, velocity, and variety. A recent report indicates that one out of every five business/i…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Detection of Malicious Android Applications: Classical Machine Learning vs. Deep Neural Network Integrated with Clustering

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Shivin Thukral +1

Today anti-malware community is facing challenges due to the ever-increasing sophistication and volume of malware attacks developed by adversaries. Traditional malware detection me…

cs.CR2021★ 16 cited

DRLDO: A novel DRL based De-ObfuscationSystem for Defense against Metamorphic Malware

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism to normalize metamorphic and obfuscated malware down at the opcode level and hence create an advanced metamorphic malware de-obfuscation…

cs.CR2021★ 82 cited

Robust Android Malware Detection System against Adversarial Attacks using Q-Learning

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Piyush Nikam +1

The current state-of-the-art Android malware detection systems are based on machine learning and deep learning models. Despite having superior performance, these models are suscept…

cs.CR2020★ 11 cited

Assessment of the Relative Importance of different hyper-parameters of LSTM for an IDS

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Recurrent deep learning language models like the LSTM are often used to provide advanced cyber-defense for high-value assets. The underlying assumption for using LSTM networks for…

cs.CR2020★ 15 cited

DeepIntent: ImplicitIntent based Android IDS with E2E Deep Learning architecture

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

The Intent in Android plays an important role in inter-process and intra-process communications. The implicit Intent that an application could accept are declared in its manifest a…

cs.CR2019

Android Malicious Application Classification Using Clustering

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Palash Chaturvedi +1

Android malware have been growing at an exponential pace and becomes a serious threat to mobile users. It appears that most of the anti-malware still relies on the signature-based…

cs.CR2019★ 124 cited

Malware Detection using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Hemant Rathore, Swati Agarwal, Sanjay K. Sahay +1

Research shows that over the last decade, malware has been growing exponentially, causing substantial financial losses to various organizations. Different anti-malware companies ha…

cs.CR2018★ 109 cited

Comparison of Deep Learning and the Classical Machine Learning Algorithm for the Malware Detection

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Recently, Deep Learning has been showing promising results in various Artificial Intelligence applications like image recognition, natural language processing, language modeling, n…

cs.CR2018★ 48 cited

An investigation of a deep learning based malware detection system

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

We investigate a Deep Learning based system for malware detection. In the investigation, we experiment with different combination of Deep Learning architectures including Auto-Enco…