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most citedNebula: Self-Attention for Dynamic Malware Analysis

39 citations · 68 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CR2026

HoF-Bench: Rediscovering Real AI-Discovered CVEs Without Frontier Models

Petr Simecek, Elnaz Babayeva, Jiri Balhar +23

LLM-based analyzers have begun finding real vulnerabilities in mature open-source projects: AISLE's analyzer is credited with more than 280 CVEs across 78 projects, including OpenS…

cs.CR2026

EXE-Bench: Ranking the Tradeoffs of AI-based Windows Malware Detectors for Real-World Usability

Andrea Ponte, Daniel Gibert, Matous Kozak +5

Due to the lack of systematic evaluations, we are not yet able to determine which AI-based Windows malware detector to deploy in production, since existing evaluations (i) differ i…

cs.CR2026

Quality-Assured Fuzz Harness Generation via the Four Principles Framework

Ze Sheng, Dmitrijs Trizna, Luigino Camastra +3

Fuzz testing is the dominant technique for finding memory-safety vulnerabilities in C/C++ software, yet its effectiveness hinges on the quality of fuzz harnesses -- the programs th…

cs.CR2024★ 7 cited

SLIFER: Investigating Performance and Robustness of Malware Detection Pipelines

Andrea Ponte, Dmitrijs Trizna, Luca Demetrio +3

As a result of decades of research, Windows malware detection is approached through a plethora of techniques. However, there is an ongoing mismatch between academia -- which pursue…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Updating Windows Malware Detectors: Balancing Robustness and Regression against Adversarial EXEmples

Matous Kozak, Luca Demetrio, Dmitrijs Trizna +1

Adversarial EXEmples are carefully-perturbed programs tailored to evade machine learning Windows malware detectors, with an ongoing effort to develop robust models able to address…

cs.CR2024

Robust Synthetic Data-Driven Detection of Living-Off-the-Land Reverse Shells

Dmitrijs Trizna, Luca Demetrio, Battista Biggio +1

Living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques pose a significant challenge to security operations, exploiting legitimate tools to execute malicious commands that evade traditional detectio…

cs.CR2023★ 39 cited

Nebula: Self-Attention for Dynamic Malware Analysis

Dmitrijs Trizna, Luca Demetrio, Battista Biggio +1

Dynamic analysis enables detecting Windows malware by executing programs in a controlled environment and logging their actions. Previous work has proposed training machine learning…

cs.CR2022★ 18 cited

Quo Vadis: Hybrid Machine Learning Meta-Model based on Contextual and Behavioral Malware Representations

Dmitrijs Trizna

We propose a hybrid machine learning architecture that simultaneously employs multiple deep learning models analyzing contextual and behavioral characteristics of Windows portable…

cs.LG2021

Shell Language Processing: Unix command parsing for Machine Learning

Dmitrijs Trizna

In this article, we present a Shell Language Preprocessing (SLP) library, which implements tokenization and encoding directed at parsing Unix and Linux shell commands. We describe…