The Shape of Alerts: Detecting Malware Using Distributed Detectors by Robustly Amplifying Transient Correlations

Mikhail Kazdagli, Constantine Caramanis, Sanjay Shakkottai +1

We introduce a new malware detector - Shape-GD - that aggregates per-machine detectors into a robust global detector. Shape-GD is based on two insights: 1. Structural: actions such…