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cs.CR2025★ 3 cited

Modern Hardware Security: A Review of Attacks and Countermeasures

Jyotiprakash Mishra, Sanjay K. Sahay

With the exponential rise in the use of cloud services, smart devices, and IoT devices, advanced cyber attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous. Furthermore, t…

cs.CR2022★ 46 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Cybersecurity Threat Detection and Protection: A Review

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

The cybersecurity threat landscape has lately become overly complex. Threat actors leverage weaknesses in the network and endpoint security in a very coordinated manner to perpetua…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Multi-Server Healthcare System

Trupil Limbasiya, Sanjay K. Sahay, Bharath Sridharan

The usage of different technologies and smart devices helps people to get medical services remotely for multiple benefits. Thus, critical and sensitive data is exchanged between a…

cs.CR2021★ 9 cited

ADVERSARIALuscator: An Adversarial-DRL Based Obfuscator and Metamorphic Malware SwarmGenerator

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Advanced metamorphic malware and ransomware, by using obfuscation, could alter their internal structure with every attack. If such malware could intrude even into any of the IoT ne…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

LSTM Hyper-Parameter Selection for Malware Detection: Interaction Effects and Hierarchical Selection Approach

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) networks have shown great promise in artificial intelligence (AI) based language modeling. Recently, LSTM networks have also become popular for design…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

DRo: A data-scarce mechanism to revolutionize the performance of Deep Learning based Security Systems

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Supervised Deep Learning requires plenty of labeled data to converge, and hence perform optimally for task-specific learning. Therefore, we propose a novel mechanism named DRo (for…

cs.CR2021★ 2 cited

Identification of Significant Permissions for Efficient Android Malware Detection

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Ritvik Rajvanshi +1

Since Google unveiled Android OS for smartphones, malware are thriving with 3Vs, i.e. volume, velocity, and variety. A recent report indicates that one out of every five business/i…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Detection of Malicious Android Applications: Classical Machine Learning vs. Deep Neural Network Integrated with Clustering

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Shivin Thukral +1

Today anti-malware community is facing challenges due to the ever-increasing sophistication and volume of malware attacks developed by adversaries. Traditional malware detection me…

cs.CR2021★ 16 cited

DRLDO: A novel DRL based De-ObfuscationSystem for Defense against Metamorphic Malware

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism to normalize metamorphic and obfuscated malware down at the opcode level and hence create an advanced metamorphic malware de-obfuscation…

cs.CR2021★ 82 cited

Robust Android Malware Detection System against Adversarial Attacks using Q-Learning

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Piyush Nikam +1

The current state-of-the-art Android malware detection systems are based on machine learning and deep learning models. Despite having superior performance, these models are suscept…

cs.CR2020★ 11 cited

Assessment of the Relative Importance of different hyper-parameters of LSTM for an IDS

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Recurrent deep learning language models like the LSTM are often used to provide advanced cyber-defense for high-value assets. The underlying assumption for using LSTM networks for…

cs.CR2020★ 17 cited

DOOM: A Novel Adversarial-DRL-Based Op-Code Level Metamorphic Malware Obfuscator for the Enhancement of IDS

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

We designed and developed DOOM (Adversarial-DRL based Opcode level Obfuscator to generate Metamorphic malware), a novel system that uses adversarial deep reinforcement learning to…

cs.CR2020★ 15 cited

DeepIntent: ImplicitIntent based Android IDS with E2E Deep Learning architecture

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

The Intent in Android plays an important role in inter-process and intra-process communications. The implicit Intent that an application could accept are declared in its manifest a…

cs.CR2020

Secure and Energy-Efficient Key-Agreement Protocol for Multi-Server Architecture

Trupil Limbasiya, Sanjay K. Sahay

Authentication schemes are practised globally to verify the legitimacy of users and servers for the exchange of data in different facilities. Generally, the server verifies a user…

cs.CR2020

Secure Communication Protocol for Smart Transportation Based on Vehicular Cloud

Trupil Limbasiya, Debasis Das, Sanjay K. Sahay

The pioneering concept of connected vehicles has transformed the way of thinking for researchers and entrepreneurs by collecting relevant data from nearby objects. However, this da…

cs.CR2019

A Survey on the Detection of Android Malicious Apps

Sanjay K. Sahay, Ashu Sharma

Android-based smart devices are exponentially growing, and due to the ubiquity of the Internet, these devices are globally connected to the different devices/networks. Its populari…

cs.CR2019

An Efficient Detection of Malware by Naive Bayes Classifier Using GPGPU

Sanjay K. Sahay, Mayank Chaudhari

Due to continuous increase in the number of malware (according to AV-Test institute total ~8 x 10^8 malware are already known, and every day they register ~2.5 x 10^4 malware) and…

cs.CR2019

Android Malicious Application Classification Using Clustering

Hemant Rathore, Sanjay K. Sahay, Palash Chaturvedi +1

Android malware have been growing at an exponential pace and becomes a serious threat to mobile users. It appears that most of the anti-malware still relies on the signature-based…

cs.CR2019★ 124 cited

Malware Detection using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Hemant Rathore, Swati Agarwal, Sanjay K. Sahay +1

Research shows that over the last decade, malware has been growing exponentially, causing substantial financial losses to various organizations. Different anti-malware companies ha…

cs.CR2019★ 5 cited

Group-wise classification approach to improve Android malicious apps detection accuracy

Ashu Sharma, Sanjay K. Sahay

In the fast-growing smart devices, Android is the most popular OS, and due to its attractive features, mobility, ease of use, these devices hold sensitive information such as perso…

cs.CR2019★ 2 cited

Detection of Advanced Malware by Machine Learning Techniques

Sanjay Sharma, C. Rama Krishna, Sanjay K. Sahay

In today's digital world most of the anti-malware tools are signature based which is ineffective to detect advanced unknown malware viz. metamorphic malware. In this paper, we stud…

cs.CR2018★ 109 cited

Comparison of Deep Learning and the Classical Machine Learning Algorithm for the Malware Detection

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

Recently, Deep Learning has been showing promising results in various Artificial Intelligence applications like image recognition, natural language processing, language modeling, n…

cs.CR2018★ 48 cited

An investigation of a deep learning based malware detection system

Mohit Sewak, Sanjay K. Sahay, Hemant Rathore

We investigate a Deep Learning based system for malware detection. In the investigation, we experiment with different combination of Deep Learning architectures including Auto-Enco…

cs.CR2018

An investigation of the classifiers to detect android malicious apps

Ashu Sharma, Sanjay K. Sahay

Android devices are growing exponentially and are connected through the internet accessing billion of online websites. The popularity of these devices encourages malware developer…