Exploring Adversarial Examples in Malware Detection

Explore adversarial examples in malware detection through this IEEE conference talk presented at the 2nd Deep Learning and Security Workshop. Delve into the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in malware detection, examining their ability to learn malicious behavior from raw executable bytes. Investigate the robustness of these architectures against active attackers and potential new attack vectors. Analyze the effectiveness of existing evasion attacks on malware detectors, considering input semantics that prevent arbitrary changes to binaries. Examine architectural weaknesses that enable new attack strategies specific to malware classification. Evaluate the generalizability, effectiveness trade-offs, and transferability of various attack strategies, including single-step attacks. Gain insights into feature engineering, end-to-end learning, natural language processing, and image classification as they relate to malware detection. Explore success rates, append strategies, and file format considerations in adversarial attacks on malware classifiers.