Generative AI-Based Effective Malware Detection for Embedded Computing Systems

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Main Authors: Kasarapu, Sreenitha, Shukla, Sanket, Hassan, Rakibul, Sasan, Avesta, Homayoun, Houman, Dinakarrao, Sai Manoj Pudukotai
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author Kasarapu, Sreenitha
Shukla, Sanket
Hassan, Rakibul
Sasan, Avesta
Homayoun, Houman
Dinakarrao, Sai Manoj Pudukotai
author_facet Kasarapu, Sreenitha
Shukla, Sanket
Hassan, Rakibul
Sasan, Avesta
Homayoun, Houman
Dinakarrao, Sai Manoj Pudukotai
contents One of the pivotal security threats for the embedded computing systems is malicious software a.k.a malware. With efficiency and efficacy, Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted for malware detection in recent times. Despite being efficient, the existing techniques require a tremendous number of benign and malware samples for training and modeling an efficient malware detector. Furthermore, such constraints limit the detection of emerging malware samples due to the lack of sufficient malware samples required for efficient training. To address such concerns, we introduce a code-aware data generation technique that generates multiple mutated samples of the limitedly seen malware by the devices. Loss minimization ensures that the generated samples closely mimic the limitedly seen malware and mitigate the impractical samples. Such developed malware is further incorporated into the training set to formulate the model that can efficiently detect the emerging malware despite having limited exposure. The experimental results demonstrates that the proposed technique achieves an accuracy of 90% in detecting limitedly seen malware, which is approximately 3x more than the accuracy attained by state-of-the-art techniques.
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spellingShingle Generative AI-Based Effective Malware Detection for Embedded Computing Systems
Kasarapu, Sreenitha
Shukla, Sanket
Hassan, Rakibul
Sasan, Avesta
Homayoun, Houman
Dinakarrao, Sai Manoj Pudukotai
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
One of the pivotal security threats for the embedded computing systems is malicious software a.k.a malware. With efficiency and efficacy, Machine Learning (ML) has been widely adopted for malware detection in recent times. Despite being efficient, the existing techniques require a tremendous number of benign and malware samples for training and modeling an efficient malware detector. Furthermore, such constraints limit the detection of emerging malware samples due to the lack of sufficient malware samples required for efficient training. To address such concerns, we introduce a code-aware data generation technique that generates multiple mutated samples of the limitedly seen malware by the devices. Loss minimization ensures that the generated samples closely mimic the limitedly seen malware and mitigate the impractical samples. Such developed malware is further incorporated into the training set to formulate the model that can efficiently detect the emerging malware despite having limited exposure. The experimental results demonstrates that the proposed technique achieves an accuracy of 90% in detecting limitedly seen malware, which is approximately 3x more than the accuracy attained by state-of-the-art techniques.
title Generative AI-Based Effective Malware Detection for Embedded Computing Systems
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02344