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Guarding Organizations Against Malware Risk: A Novel Graph-Based Malware Detection Method

arXiv:2607. 26634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizational digitalization expands cybersecurity risks, making cybersecurity an increasingly important research area in Information Systems (IS).

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Evaluating Out-of-Distribution Robustness in Graph-Based Android Malware Classification: A New Principled Benchmark

The paper introduces a new benchmark for assessing out-of-distribution robustness in graph-based Android malware classifiers, highlighting that current models drop up to 45% accuracy on unseen malware variants. It presents two scenarios—MalNet-Tiny-Common for covariate shift and MalNet-Tiny-Distinct for domain shift—and identifies a limitation in existing benchmarks that rely solely on structure-only function call graphs. To address this, the authors propose a semantic enrichment framework that augments graph topology with function-level attributes and LLM-based code embeddings, demonstrating that this data-centric approach improves robustness under distribution shift and complements model-based methods.

By Ngoc N. Tran, Anwar Said, Waseem Abbas, Tyler Derr, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Temporal Generalization and Explanation Stability of Control Flow Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection

The paper evaluates how graph neural networks (GNNs) built on control flow graphs (CFGs) perform when trained on one time period and tested on a later one, using a strict temporal split. Twelve GNN variants and a flat-feature baseline were trained on 459 CFGs from 2024‑2025 and evaluated on 223 CFGs from 2026, revealing that the choice of message‑passing operator strongly affects robustness to distribution shift. Attribution stability varied by architecture, and the best-performing operator on the later corpus was also the hardest to explain, leading the authors to design a new architecture that matches its performance without search.

By Md. Asif Sajeed, Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal, Md Ashraful Hossen Akash
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Delphi Scanner: efficient and interpretable static malware detection via API sequence modeling

Delphi Scanner is a static malware detection system for Windows PE files that balances efficiency and interpretability. It employs a convolutional neural network to model Windows API sequences and a rule‑based interpretation layer to map APIs to high‑level malicious capabilities. Tested on over 190,000 PE files, it achieves 95.35% accuracy with a 1.53 MB model, and demonstrates robustness against out‑of‑distribution samples and adversarial manipulations.

By Bijied Brahimi, Vincent Cohadon, Gabriel Glazman, Rayan Al Mohaize, Omran Berjawi, Rida Khatoun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Survey of Dual-Use Risks, AI-Generated Malware, Explainability, and Defensive Strategies

Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks. These technologies power real-time threat detection, phishing defense, secure code generation, and vulnerability exploitation at unprecedented scales.

arXiv AI
Jul 9

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Survey of Dual-Use Risks, AI-Generated Malware, Explainability, and Defensive Strategies

arXiv:2607. 06963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks.

By Kiarash Ahi, Saeed Valizadeh