One network generates candidates and the other evaluates them. Typically, the generative network learns to map from a latent space to a particular data distribution of interest (benignware), while the discriminative network discriminates between instances from the true data distribution and candidates produced by the generator. The generative network’s training objective is to increase the error rate of the discriminative network (i.e., “fool” the discriminator network by producing novel synthesized instances that appear to have come from the true data distribution).
The proposed method converts the strings, and opcode sequences extracted from the malware into vectors and calculates the similarities between vectors. In addition, we apply the proposed method to the execution traces extracted through dynamic analysis, so that malware employing detection avoidance techniques such as obfuscation and packing can be analyzed. Instructions and instructions frequencies can be modeled into vectors. Call sequences can be modeled. PE sections, DLLs, opcode stats as BOW can be modeled into vectors. Name of files, system calls, API can be vectorized.
We present a novel system for automatically discovering and interactively visualizing shared system call sequence relationships within large malware datasets. Our system’s pipeline begins with the application of a novel heuristic algorithm for extracting variable length, semantically meaningful system call sequences from malware system call behavior logs. Then, based on the occurrence of these semantic sequences, we construct a Boolean vector representation of the malware sample corpus. Finally we compute Jaccard indices pairwise over sample vectors to obtain a sample similarity matrix.
Automatic malware signature generation and classification. The method uses a deep stack of denoising autoencoders, generating an invariant compact representation of the malware behavior. While conventional signature and token based methods for malware detection do not detect a majority of new variants for existing malware, the results presented in this paper show that signatures generated by the DBN allow for an accurate classification of new malware variants.
Generative adversarial network for opcode – altering the malware code to resemble benignware by injection subroutines from normal files to cause a rise in misdetection
Machine learning is a popular approach to signatureless malware detection because it can generalize to never-beforeseen malware families and polymorphic strains. This has resulted in its practical use for either primary detection engines or supplementary heuristic detections by anti-malware vendors. Recent work in adversarial machine learning has shown that models are susceptible to gradient-based and other attacks. In this whitepaper, we summarize the various attacks that have been proposed for machine learning models in information security, each which require the adversary to have some degree of knowledge about the model under attack. Importantly, even when applied to attacking machine learning malware classifier based on static features for Windows portable executable (PE) files, these attacks, previous attack methodologies may break the format or functionality of the malware. We investigate a more general framework for attacking static PE anti-malware engines based on reinforcement learning, which models more realistic attacker conditions, and subsequently has provides much more modest evasion rates. A reinforcement learning (RL) agent is equipped with a set of functionality-preserving operations that it may perform on the PE file. It learns through a series of games played against the anti-malware engine which sequence of operations is most likely to result in evasion for a given malware sample. Given the general framework, it is not surprising that the evasion rates are modest. However, the resulting RL agent can succinctly summarize blind spots of the anti-malware model. Additionally, evasive variants generated by the agent may be used to harden machine learning anti-malware engine via adversarial training
Every XMAS I always do some electronics project for fun. This year LIDAR.
This stack provides a ROS driver for the SICK LD-MRS series of laser scanners. The SICK LD-MRS is a multi-layer, multi-echo 3D laser scanner that is geared towards rough outdoor environments and also provides object tracking. The driver also works for the identical devices from IBEO.
