Publications
, «Design and Implementation of Robust Systems for Secure Malware Detection (Ph.D. Thesis)», University of Cagliari, Italy, Cagliari, 2016.
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(5.34 MB), «Evaluating Analysis Tools for Android Apps: Status Quo and Robustness Against Obfuscation», Horst Görtz Institut for IT Security (Ruhr-University Bochum), Technical Report TR-HGI-2016-003, 2016. (519.16 KB)
(519.16 KB), «Yes, Machine Learning Can Be More Secure! A Case Study on Android Malware Detection», IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing, vol 16, n° 4, pagg 711-724, 2019. (3.61 MB)
(3.61 MB), «Towards Adversarial Malware Detection: Lessons Learned from PDF-based Attacks», ACM Computing Surveys, vol 52, n° 4, 2019. (1.21 MB)
(1.21 MB), «Stealth Attacks: An Extended Insight into the Obfuscation Effects on Android Malware», Computers And Security (Elsevier), vol 51 (June), pagg 16-31, 2015. (413.99 KB)
(413.99 KB), «On the Feasibility of Adversarial Sample Creation Using the Android System API», Information, n° 11(9): 433, 2020. (1.26 MB)
(1.26 MB), «On the Effectiveness of System API-Related Information for Android Ransomware Detection», Computers and Security, vol 86, pagg 162-182, 2019. (706.92 KB)
(706.92 KB), «Do Gradient-Based Explanations Tell Anything About Adversarial Robustness to Android Malware?», International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, vol 13, pagg 217-232, 2022. (1.2 MB)
(1.2 MB), «Digital Investigation of PDF Files: Unveiling Traces of Embedded Malware», IEEE Security and Privacy: Special Issue on Digital Forensics, vol 17, n° 1, pagg 63-71, 2019. (838.95 KB)
(838.95 KB), «Adversarial Detection of Flash Malware: Limitations and Open Issues», Computers & Security, vol 96, 2020. (1.08 MB)
(1.08 MB), «A Structural and Content-Based Approach for a Precise and Robust Detection of Malicious PDF Files», Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2015, 9-11th February 2015, Angers, France). pagg 27-36, 2015. (267.78 KB)
(267.78 KB), «Reach Me if You Can: On Native Vulnerability Reachability in Android Apps», 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). 2022. (979.51 KB)
(979.51 KB), «PowerDrive: Accurate De-Obfuscation and Analysis of PowerShell Malware», 16th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA). Springer, Gothenburg, Sweden, pagg 240-259, 2019. (352.39 KB)
(352.39 KB), «PowerDecode: A PowerShell Script Decoder Dedicated to Malware Analysis», 5th Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC). 2021. (982.03 KB)
(982.03 KB), «A Longitudinal Study of Cryptographic API: A Decade of Android Malware», 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT). pagg 121-133, 2022. (251.06 KB)
(251.06 KB), «Extended Abstract: Effective Call Graph Fingerprinting for the Analysis and Classification of Windows Malware», 19th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA). pagg 42-52, 2022. (328.32 KB)
(328.32 KB), «Evaluating Analysis Tools for Android Apps: Status Quo and Robustness against Obfuscation», Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016, 09-11 March, 2016). 2016. (726.65 KB)
(726.65 KB), «R-PackDroid: API Package-Based Characterization and Detection of Mobile Ransomware», in ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2017 - Acceptance Rate 15.7%), 2017, pagg 1718-1723. (272.44 KB)
(272.44 KB), «On the Robustness of Mobile Device Fingerprinting», in 31st Annual Computer Security and Applications Conference (ACSAC 2015), 7-10th December 2015, Los Angeles, USA, 2015, pagg 191-200. (301.87 KB)
(301.87 KB), «A Pattern Recognition System for Malicious PDF Files Detection», in MLDM - International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, Berlin, 2012, vol 7376, pagg 510-524. (1.74 MB)
(1.74 MB), «Lux0R: Detection of Malicious PDF-embedded JavaScript code through Discriminant Analysis of API References», in AISec'14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, co-located with CCS '14, Scottdale, Arizona, USA, 2014. (455.14 KB)
(455.14 KB), «Looking at the Bag is not Enough to Find the Bomb: an Evasion of Structural Methods for Malicious PDF Files Detection», in 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2013), Hangzhou, China, 2013. (2.12 MB)
(2.12 MB), «Explaining Black-box Android Malware Detection», in 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO '18), Rome, Italy, 2018, pagg 524-528. (431.78 KB)
(431.78 KB), «Evasion attacks against machine learning at test time», in European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2013, vol 8190, pagg 387-402. (473.78 KB)
(473.78 KB), «Detection of Malicious Scripting Code through Discriminant and Adversary-Aware API Analysis», in 1st Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC), 2017, vol 1816, pagg 96-105. (371.53 KB)
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