Malware Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

Malware Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
Author: Mark Stamp
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030625826

​This book is focused on the use of deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI) as tools to advance the fields of malware detection and analysis. The individual chapters of the book deal with a wide variety of state-of-the-art AI and DL techniques, which are applied to a number of challenging malware-related problems. DL and AI based approaches to malware detection and analysis are largely data driven and hence minimal expert domain knowledge of malware is needed. This book fills a gap between the emerging fields of DL/AI and malware analysis. It covers a broad range of modern and practical DL and AI techniques, including frameworks and development tools enabling the audience to innovate with cutting-edge research advancements in a multitude of malware (and closely related) use cases.

Advances in Malware and Data-Driven Network Security

Advances in Malware and Data-Driven Network Security
Author: Gupta, Brij B.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1799877914

Every day approximately three-hundred thousand to four-hundred thousand new malware are registered, many of them being adware and variants of previously known malware. Anti-virus companies and researchers cannot deal with such a deluge of malware – to analyze and build patches. The only way to scale the efforts is to build algorithms to enable machines to analyze malware and classify and cluster them to such a level of granularity that it will enable humans (or machines) to gain critical insights about them and build solutions that are specific enough to detect and thwart existing malware and generic-enough to thwart future variants. Advances in Malware and Data-Driven Network Security comprehensively covers data-driven malware security with an emphasis on using statistical, machine learning, and AI as well as the current trends in ML/statistical approaches to detecting, clustering, and classification of cyber-threats. Providing information on advances in malware and data-driven network security as well as future research directions, it is ideal for graduate students, academicians, faculty members, scientists, software developers, security analysts, computer engineers, programmers, IT specialists, and researchers who are seeking to learn and carry out research in the area of malware and data-driven network security.

ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING FOR MALWARE ANALYSIS

ADVANCED DEEP LEARNING FOR MALWARE ANALYSIS
Author: Dr.B.Balakumar
Publisher: SK Research Group of Companies
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9395341084

Dr.B.Balakumar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abhishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.J.Syed Nizamudeen Ahmed, Assistant Professor Temp, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abhishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Mrs.V.S.Jeyalakshmi, Researcher, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abhishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.S.Vijayalakshmi, Assistant Professor Temp, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abhishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Mrs.S.Kowsalya , Researcher, Centre for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Abhishekapatti, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.

Malware Detection

Malware Detection
Author: Mihai Christodorescu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2007-03-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0387445994

This book captures the state of the art research in the area of malicious code detection, prevention and mitigation. It contains cutting-edge behavior-based techniques to analyze and detect obfuscated malware. The book analyzes current trends in malware activity online, including botnets and malicious code for profit, and it proposes effective models for detection and prevention of attacks using. Furthermore, the book introduces novel techniques for creating services that protect their own integrity and safety, plus the data they manage.

Malware Data Science

Malware Data Science
Author: Joshua Saxe
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1593278594

Malware Data Science explains how to identify, analyze, and classify large-scale malware using machine learning and data visualization. Security has become a "big data" problem. The growth rate of malware has accelerated to tens of millions of new files per year while our networks generate an ever-larger flood of security-relevant data each day. In order to defend against these advanced attacks, you'll need to know how to think like a data scientist. In Malware Data Science, security data scientist Joshua Saxe introduces machine learning, statistics, social network analysis, and data visualization, and shows you how to apply these methods to malware detection and analysis. You'll learn how to: - Analyze malware using static analysis - Observe malware behavior using dynamic analysis - Identify adversary groups through shared code analysis - Catch 0-day vulnerabilities by building your own machine learning detector - Measure malware detector accuracy - Identify malware campaigns, trends, and relationships through data visualization Whether you're a malware analyst looking to add skills to your existing arsenal, or a data scientist interested in attack detection and threat intelligence, Malware Data Science will help you stay ahead of the curve.

Deep Learning Applications for Cyber Security

Deep Learning Applications for Cyber Security
Author: Mamoun Alazab
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030130576

Cybercrime remains a growing challenge in terms of security and privacy practices. Working together, deep learning and cyber security experts have recently made significant advances in the fields of intrusion detection, malicious code analysis and forensic identification. This book addresses questions of how deep learning methods can be used to advance cyber security objectives, including detection, modeling, monitoring and analysis of as well as defense against various threats to sensitive data and security systems. Filling an important gap between deep learning and cyber security communities, it discusses topics covering a wide range of modern and practical deep learning techniques, frameworks and development tools to enable readers to engage with the cutting-edge research across various aspects of cyber security. The book focuses on mature and proven techniques, and provides ample examples to help readers grasp the key points.

Learning Malware Analysis

Learning Malware Analysis
Author: Monnappa K A
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788397525

Understand malware analysis and its practical implementation Key Features Explore the key concepts of malware analysis and memory forensics using real-world examples Learn the art of detecting, analyzing, and investigating malware threats Understand adversary tactics and techniques Book Description Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. With adversaries becoming sophisticated and carrying out advanced malware attacks on critical infrastructures, data centers, and private and public organizations, detecting, responding to, and investigating such intrusions is critical to information security professionals. Malware analysis and memory forensics have become must-have skills to fight advanced malware, targeted attacks, and security breaches. This book teaches you the concepts, techniques, and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware through malware analysis. It also teaches you techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics. This book introduces you to the basics of malware analysis, and then gradually progresses into the more advanced concepts of code analysis and memory forensics. It uses real-world malware samples, infected memory images, and visual diagrams to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and to equip you with the skills required to analyze, investigate, and respond to malware-related incidents. What you will learn Create a safe and isolated lab environment for malware analysis Extract the metadata associated with malware Determine malware's interaction with the system Perform code analysis using IDA Pro and x64dbg Reverse-engineer various malware functionalities Reverse engineer and decode common encoding/encryption algorithms Reverse-engineer malware code injection and hooking techniques Investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics Who this book is for This book is for incident responders, cyber-security investigators, system administrators, malware analyst, forensic practitioners, student, or curious security professionals interested in learning malware analysis and memory forensics. Knowledge of programming languages such as C and Python is helpful but is not mandatory. If you have written few lines of code and have a basic understanding of programming concepts, you’ll be able to get most out of this book.

Advanced Malware Analysis

Advanced Malware Analysis
Author: Christopher C. Elisan
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2015-09-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0071819754

A one-of-a-kind guide to setting up a malware research lab, using cutting-edge analysis tools, and reporting the findings Advanced Malware Analysis is a critical resource for every information security professional's anti-malware arsenal. The proven troubleshooting techniques will give an edge to information security professionals whose job involves detecting, decoding, and reporting on malware. After explaining malware architecture and how it operates, the book describes how to create and configure a state-of-the-art malware research lab and gather samples for analysis. Then, you’ll learn how to use dozens of malware analysis tools, organize data, and create metrics-rich reports. A crucial tool for combatting malware—which currently hits each second globally Filled with undocumented methods for customizing dozens of analysis software tools for very specific uses Leads you through a malware blueprint first, then lab setup, and finally analysis and reporting activities Every tool explained in this book is available in every country around the world

Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning

Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning
Author: ElMouatez Billah Karbab
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-07-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303074664X

The authors develop a malware fingerprinting framework to cover accurate android malware detection and family attribution in this book. The authors emphasize the following: (1) the scalability over a large malware corpus; (2) the resiliency to common obfuscation techniques; (3) the portability over different platforms and architectures. First, the authors propose an approximate fingerprinting technique for android packaging that captures the underlying static structure of the android applications in the context of bulk and offline detection at the app-market level. This book proposes a malware clustering framework to perform malware clustering by building and partitioning the similarity network of malicious applications on top of this fingerprinting technique. Second, the authors propose an approximate fingerprinting technique that leverages dynamic analysis and natural language processing techniques to generate Android malware behavior reports. Based on this fingerprinting technique, the authors propose a portable malware detection framework employing machine learning classification. Third, the authors design an automatic framework to produce intelligence about the underlying malicious cyber-infrastructures of Android malware. The authors then leverage graph analysis techniques to generate relevant intelligence to identify the threat effects of malicious Internet activity associated with android malware. The authors elaborate on an effective android malware detection system, in the online detection context at the mobile device level. It is suitable for deployment on mobile devices, using machine learning classification on method call sequences. Also, it is resilient to common code obfuscation techniques and adaptive to operating systems and malware change overtime, using natural language processing and deep learning techniques. Researchers working in mobile and network security, machine learning and pattern recognition will find this book useful as a reference. Advanced-level students studying computer science within these topic areas will purchase this book as well.

Soft Computing: Theories and Applications

Soft Computing: Theories and Applications
Author: Kanad Ray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811305897

The book focuses on soft computing and its applications to solve real-world problems occurring in different domains ranging from medicine and healthcare, and supply chain management to image processing and cryptanalysis. It includes high-quality papers presented in the International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA 2017), organized by Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India. Offering significant insights into soft computing for teachers and researchers alike, the book inspires more researchers to work in the field of soft computing.