2 papers
cs.CR2024
Living off the Analyst: Harvesting Features from Yara Rules for Malware Detection
Siddhant Gupta, Fred Lu, Andrew Barlow +5
A strategy used by malicious actors is to "live off the land," where benign systems and tools already available on a victim's systems are used and repurposed for the malicious acto…
cs.LG2024
Neural Normalized Compression Distance and the Disconnect Between Compression and Classification
John Hurwitz, Charles Nicholas, Edward Raff
It is generally well understood that predictive classification and compression are intrinsically related concepts in information theory. Indeed, many deep learning methods are expl…