3 papers
cs.CR2026
PhantomCall: Evading ML Malware Detectors via Function Call Graph Perturbation
Md Ajwad Akil, Adrian Shuai Li, Imtiaz Karim +3
Prior adversarial attacks on Windows PE malware detectors target raw bytes, PE headers, or intra-function control-flow graphs, leaving the function call graph (FCG) unexplored as a…
cs.CR2026
Can Drift-Adaptive Malware Detectors Be Made Robust? Attacks and Defenses Under White-Box and Black-Box Threats
Adrian Shuai Li, Md Ajwad Akil, Elisa Bertino
Concept drift and adversarial evasion are two major challenges for deploying machine learning-based malware detectors. While both have been studied separately, their combination, t…
cs.CR2025
LLMalMorph: On The Feasibility of Generating Variant Malware using Large-Language-Models
Md Ajwad Akil, Adrian Shuai Li, Imtiaz Karim +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed software development and automated code generation. Motivated by these advancements, this paper explores the feasibility of LLMs in mo…