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most citedLongitudinal Study of the Prevalence of Malware Evasive Techniques

8 citations · 15 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2026

HoldSpec: A Machine-Checked Model and Conformance Suite for the Payment Authorization Hold Lifecycle

Abhishek Sharma

When a merchant authorizes a card and captures the funds later, the money sits in a state that neither party fully controls: held on the cardholder's account, not yet taken, and du…

cs.CR2026

Evasive Intelligence: Lessons from Malware Analysis for Evaluating AI Agents

Simone Aonzo, Merve Sahin, Aurélien Francillon +1

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly adopted as tool-using agents that can plan, observe their environment, and take actions over extended time periods. This evolu…

cs.CR2025

Trust Under Siege: Label Spoofing Attacks against Machine Learning for Android Malware Detection

Tianwei Lan, Luca Demetrio, Farid Nait-Abdesselam +2

Machine Learning (ML) malware detectors rely heavily on crowd-sourced AntiVirus (AV) labels, with platforms like VirusTotal serving as trusted sources of malware annotations. But w…

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.CR2023

Decoding the Secrets of Machine Learning in Malware Classification: A Deep Dive into Datasets, Feature Extraction, and Model Performance

Savino Dambra, Yufei Han, Simone Aonzo +5

Many studies have proposed machine-learning (ML) models for malware detection and classification, reporting an almost-perfect performance. However, they assemble ground-truth in di…

cs.CR2021★ 8 cited

Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence of Malware Evasive Techniques

Lorenzo Maffia, Dario Nisi, Platon Kotzias +3

By their very nature, malware samples employ a variety of techniques to conceal their malicious behavior and hide it from analysis tools. To mitigate the problem, a large number of…