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Disarming visualization-based approaches in malware detection systems

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Lara Saidia Fascí
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Marco Fisichella *
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Gianluca Lax
DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2022.103062delete
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Visualization-based approaches have recently been used in conjunction with signature-based techniques to detect variants of malware files. Indeed, it is sufficient to modify some byte of executable files to modify the signature and, thus, to elude a signature-based detector. In this paper, we design a GAN-based architecture that allows an attacker to generate variants of a malware in which the malware patterns found by visualization-based approaches are hidden, thus producing a new version of the malware that is not detected by both signature-based and visualization-based techniques. The experiments carried out on a well-known malware dataset show a success rate of 100% in generating new variants of malware files that are not detected from the state-of-the-art visualization-based technique. (c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Keywords:
Malware classification
Machine learning
Deep learning
GAN
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Leibniz University Hannover
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