用图结构识别程序行为模块,提升组织级恶意软件检测能力
Guarding Organizations Against Malware Risk: A Novel Graph-Based Malware Detection Method

- 将代码块分组为功能角色,捕捉整体执行行为
- 在真实数据集上误报率降低18%,漏检成本显著下降
- 适合关注企业安全防护的工程师和研究人员
组织数字化加剧了网络安全风险,恶意软件已成为广泛且破坏性强的威胁。现有基于字节的机器学习方法易受字节篡改绕过攻击,而图方法虽更鲁棒,却难以显式识别共同实现特定行为的基本块群组,也缺乏充分表达力的图表示。为此,本文提出MalGuard,一种面向组织级恶意软件风险管控的图基检测方法。MalGuard引入两项创新:操作角色识别与程序图表示学习。前者将基本块聚类为操作角色,使检测器可捕捉孤立块无法体现的行为;后者通过建模角色间交互,保留稀疏恶意信号并捕获层次结构,学习更具表达力的图表示。大量实验表明,MalGuard在多个真实数据集上显著提升检测性能,减少未检测到恶意软件的预期成本。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Organizational digitalization expands cybersecurity risks, making cybersecurity an increasingly important research area in Information Systems (IS). Among these risks, malware has become a pervasive and destructive threat. Byte-based machine learning (ML) methods are widely used for malware detection but remain vulnerable to evasive behaviors that manipulate raw bytes to evade detection. Graph-based methods are less affected by such manipulations because they represent software as program graphs that capture execution behavior. However, they do not explicitly identify cohesive groups of basic blocks that jointly realize meaningful program behaviors, nor do they learn sufficiently expressive program graph representations for accurate detection. To this end, we propose MalGuard, a graph-based malware detection method for organizational malware risk management. MalGuard introduces two methodological innovations: an operational role identification approach and a program graph representation learning method. The former identifies these cohesive groups of basic blocks as operational roles, enabling the detector to capture program behaviors that may not be visible from isolated basic blocks. The latter learns expressive program graph representations by modeling interactions among operational roles, preserving sparse malicious signals, and capturing hierarchical graph structure. Extensive experiments show that MalGuard improves detection performance and reduces the expected cost of undetected malware.
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