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20162025
most citedN-opcode Analysis for Android Malware Classification and Categorization

104 citations · 109 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AR2025

Microarchitecture Design and Benchmarking of Custom SHA-3 Instruction for RISC-V

Alperen Bolat, Sakir Sezer, Kieran McLaughlin +1

Integrating cryptographic accelerators into modern CPU architectures presents unique microarchitectural challenges, particularly when extending instruction sets with complex and mu…

cs.CR2020

Big Fish, Little Fish, Critical Infrastructure: An Analysis of Phineas Fisher and the 'Hacktivist' Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Peter Maynard, Kieran McLaughlin

The hacktivist threat actor is listed in many risk decision documents. Yet their tactics and techniques often remain a mystery. We create a MITRE ATT&CK (ATT&CK) model of a well kn…

cs.CR2020

Towards Understanding Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS) in SCADA Networks

Peter Maynard, Kieran McLaughlin

We describe a new class of packet injection attacks called Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS), previously only seen where state actors have "compromised" a number of telecommunication…

cs.CR2016★ 3 cited

N-gram Opcode Analysis for Android Malware Detection

BooJoong Kang, Suleiman Y. Yerima, Sakir Sezer +1

Android malware has been on the rise in recent years due to the increasing popularity of Android and the proliferation of third party application markets. Emerging Android malware…

cs.CR2016★ 2 cited

PageRank in Malware Categorization

BooJoong Kang, Suleiman Y. Yerima, Kieran McLaughlin +1

In this paper, we propose a malware categorization method that models malware behavior in terms of instructions using PageRank. PageRank computes ranks of web pages based on struct…

cs.CR2016★ 104 cited

N-opcode Analysis for Android Malware Classification and Categorization

BooJoong Kang, Suleiman Y. Yerima, Kieran McLaughlin +1

Malware detection is a growing problem particularly on the Android mobile platform due to its increasing popularity and accessibility to numerous third party app markets. This has…