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most citedTESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time

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cs.CR2025

Beyond the TESSERACT:Trustworthy Dataset Curation for Sound Evaluations of Android Malware Classifiers

Theo Chow, Mario D'Onghia, Lorenz Linhardt +4

The reliability of machine learning critically depends on dataset quality. While machine learning applied to computer vision and natural language processing benefits from high-qual…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem

Yigitcan Kaya, Yizheng Chen, Marcus Botacin +5

Malware detection is a ubiquitous application of Machine Learning (ML) in security. In behavioral malware analysis, the detector relies on features extracted from program execution…

cs.CR2024★ 7 cited

How to Train your Antivirus: RL-based Hardening through the Problem-Space

Ilias Tsingenopoulos, Jacopo Cortellazzi, Branislav Bošanský +5

ML-based malware detection on dynamic analysis reports is vulnerable to both evasion and spurious correlations. In this work, we investigate a specific ML architecture employed in…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Unraveling the Key of Machine Learning-based Android Malware Detection

Jiahao Liu, Jun Zeng, Fabio Pierazzi +3

With the rapid advancement of machine learning (ML), ML-based Android malware detection has gained significant popularity due to its ability to automatically learn malicious patter…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

"Real Attackers Don't Compute Gradients": Bridging the Gap Between Adversarial ML Research and Practice

Giovanni Apruzzese, Hyrum S. Anderson, Savino Dambra +3

Recent years have seen a proliferation of research on adversarial machine learning. Numerous papers demonstrate powerful algorithmic attacks against a wide variety of machine learn…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

Jigsaw Puzzle: Selective Backdoor Attack to Subvert Malware Classifiers

Limin Yang, Zhi Chen, Jacopo Cortellazzi +5

Malware classifiers are subject to training-time exploitation due to the need to regularly retrain using samples collected from the wild. Recent work has demonstrated the feasibili…

cs.CR2021★ 6 cited

Realizable Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Malware

Raphael Labaca-Castro, Luis Muñoz-González, Feargus Pendlebury +3

Machine learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- input-specific perturbations that manipulate models' output. Universal Adversarial Perturbations (UAPs), whic…

cs.CR2020★ 24 cited

Dos and Don'ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security

Daniel Arp, Erwin Quiring, Feargus Pendlebury +5

With the growing processing power of computing systems and the increasing availability of massive datasets, machine learning algorithms have led to major breakthroughs in many diff…

cs.CR2020★ 1 cited

Transcending Transcend: Revisiting Malware Classification in the Presence of Concept Drift

Federico Barbero, Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi +1

Machine learning for malware classification shows encouraging results, but real deployments suffer from performance degradation as malware authors adapt their techniques to evade d…

cs.CR2019★ 5 cited

Intriguing Properties of Adversarial ML Attacks in the Problem Space [Extended Version]

Jacopo Cortellazzi, Feargus Pendlebury, Daniel Arp +3

Recent research efforts on adversarial machine learning (ML) have investigated problem-space attacks, focusing on the generation of real evasive objects in domains where, unlike im…

cs.CR2018★ 56 cited

TESSERACT: Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification across Space and Time

Feargus Pendlebury, Fabio Pierazzi, Roberto Jordaney +2

Is Android malware classification a solved problem? Published F1 scores of up to 0.99 appear to leave very little room for improvement. In this paper, we argue that results are com…