Download or read book Data Mining and Machine Learning for Reverse Engineering written by Honghui Ding and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reverse engineering is fundamental for understanding the inner workings of new malware, exploring new vulnerabilities in existing systems, and identifying patent infringements in the distributed executables. It is the process of getting an in-depth understanding of a given binary executable without its corresponding source code. Reverse engineering is a manually intensive and time-consuming process that relies on a thorough understanding of the full development stack from hardware to applications. It requires a much steeper learning curve than programming. Given the unprecedentedly vast amount of data to be analyzed and the significance of reverse engineering, the overall question that drives the studies in this thesis is how can data mining and machine learning technologies make cybersecurity practitioners more productive to uncover the provenance, understand the intention, and discover the issues behind the data in a scalable way. In this thesis, I focus on two data-driven solutions to help reverse engineers analyzing binary data: assembly clone search and behavioral summarization. Assembly code clone search is emerging as an Information Retrieval (IR) technique that helps address security problems. It has been used for differing binaries to locate the changed parts, identifying known library functions such as encryption, searching for known programming bugs or zero-day vulnerabilities in existing software or Internet of Things (IoT) devices firmware, as well as detecting software plagiarism or GNU license infringements when the source code is unavailable. However, designing an effective search engine is difficult, due to varieties of compiler optimization and obfuscation techniques that make logically similar assembly functions appear to be dramatically different. By working closely with reverse engineers, I identify three different scenarios of reverse engineering and develop novel data mining and machine learning models for assembly clone search to address the respective challenges. By developing an intelligent assembly clone search platform, I optimize the process of reverse engineering by addressing the information needs of reverse engineers. Experimental results suggest that Kam1n0 is accurate, efficient, and scalable for handling a large volume of data.The second part of the thesis goes beyond optimizing an information retrieval process for reverse engineering. I propose to automatically and statically characterize the behaviors of a given binary executable. Behavioral indicators denote those potentially high-risk malicious behaviors exhibited by malware, such as unintended network communications, file encryption, keystroke logging, abnormal registry modifications, sandbox evasion, and camera manipulation. I design a novel neural network architecture that models the different aspects of an executable. It is able to predict over 139 suspicious and malicious behavioral indicators, without running the executable. The resulting system can be used as an additional binary analytic layer to mitigate the issues of polymorphism, metamorphism, and evasive techniques. It also provides another behavioral abstraction of malware to security analysts and reverse engineers. Therefore, it can reduce the data to be manually analyzed, and the reverse engineers can focus on the binaries that are of their interest. In summary, this thesis presents four original research projects that not only advance the knowledge in reverse engineering and data mining, but also contribute to the overall safety of our cyber world by providing open-source award-winning binary analysis systems that empower cybersecurity practitioners"--

Download or read book Machine Learning Methods for Reverse Engineering of Defective Structured Surfaces written by Pascal Laube and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal Laube presents machine learning approaches for three key problems of reverse engineering of defective structured surfaces: parametrization of curves and surfaces, geometric primitive classification and inpainting of high-resolution textures. The proposed methods aim to improve the reconstruction quality while further automating the process. The contributions demonstrate that machine learning can be a viable part of the CAD reverse engineering pipeline.

Download or read book Data Mining and Reverse Engineering written by Stefano Spaccapietra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Semantics: Data Mining, Reverse Engineering Stefano Spaccapietra Fred M aryanski Swiss Federal Institute of Technology University of Connecticut Lausanne, Switzerland Storrs, CT, USA REVIEW AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS In the last few years, database semantics research has turned sharply from a highly theoretical domain to one with more focus on practical aspects. The DS- 7 Working Conference held in October 1997 in Leysin, Switzerland, demon strated the more pragmatic orientation of the current generation of leading researchers. The papers presented at the meeting emphasized the two major areas: the discovery of semantics and semantic data modeling. The work in the latter category indicates that although object-oriented database management systems have emerged as commercially viable prod ucts, many fundamental modeling issues require further investigation. Today's object-oriented systems provide the capability to describe complex objects and include techniques for mapping from a relational database to objects. However, we must further explore the expression of information regarding the dimensions of time and space. Semantic models possess the richness to describe systems containing spatial and temporal data. The challenge of in corporating these features in a manner that promotes efficient manipulation by the subject specialist still requires extensive development.

Download or read book Classification of Malware Using Reverse Engineering and Data Mining Techniques written by Ravindar Reddy Ravula and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detecting new and unknown malware is a major challenge in today's software security profession. A lot of approaches for the detection of malware using data mining techniques have already been proposed. Majority of the works used static features of malware. However, static detection methods fall short of detecting present day complex malware. Although some researchers proposed dynamic detection methods, the methods did not use all the malware features. In this work, an approach for the detection of new and unknown malware was proposed and implemented. 582 malware and 521 benign software samples were collected from the Internet. Each sample was reverse engineered for analyzing its effect on the operating environment and to extract the static and behavioral features. The raw data extracted from the reverse engineering was preprocessed and two datasets are obtained: dataset with reversed features and dataset with API Call features. Feature reduction was performed manually on the dataset with reversed features and the features that do not contribute to the classification were removed. Machine learning classification algorithm, J48 was applied to dataset with reversed features to obtain classification rules and a decision tree with the rules was obtained. To reduce the tree size and to obtain optimum number of decision rules, attribute values in the dataset with reversed features were discretized and another dataset was prepared with discretized attribute values. The new dataset was applied to J48 algorithm and a decision tree was generated with another set of classification rules. To further reduce the tree and number of decision rules, the dataset with discretized features was subjected to a machine learning tool, BLEM2 which is based on the rough sets and produces decision rules. To test the accuracy of the rules, the dataset with decision rules from BLEM2 was given as input to J48 algorithm. The same procedure was followed for the dataset with API Call features. Another set of experiments was conducted on the three datasets using Naïve Bayes classifier to generate training model for classification. All the training models were tested with an independent training set. J48 decision tree algorithm produced better results with DDF and DAF datasets with accuracies of 81.448% and 89.140% respectively. Naïve Bayes classifier produced better results with DDF dataset with an accuracy of 85.067%.

Download or read book Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition written by Petra Perner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2017, held in New York, NY, USA in July/August 2017.The 31 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. The topics range from theoretical topics for classification, clustering, association rule and pattern mining to specific data mining methods for the different multi-media data types such as image mining, text mining, video mining, and Web mining.

Download or read book Data Mining written by Ian H. Witten and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition, offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated third edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning will teach you everything you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining. Thorough updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including new material on Data Transformations, Ensemble Learning, Massive Data Sets, Multi-instance Learning, plus a new version of the popular Weka machine learning software developed by the authors. Witten, Frank, and Hall include both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. The book is targeted at information systems practitioners, programmers, consultants, developers, information technology managers, specification writers, data analysts, data modelers, database R&D professionals, data warehouse engineers, data mining professionals. The book will also be useful for professors and students of upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level data mining and machine learning courses who want to incorporate data mining as part of their data management knowledge base and expertise. Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to your data mining projects Offers concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods Includes downloadable Weka software toolkit, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks—in an updated, interactive interface. Algorithms in toolkit cover: data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, visualization

Download or read book Reverse Engineering the Mind written by Florian Neukart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florian Neukart describes methods for interpreting signals in the human brain in combination with state of the art AI, allowing for the creation of artificial conscious entities (ACE). Key methods are to establish a symbiotic relationship between a biological brain, sensors, AI and quantum hard- and software, resulting in solutions for the continuous consciousness-problem as well as other state of the art problems. The research conducted by the author attracts considerable attention, as there is a deep urge for people to understand what advanced technology means in terms of the future of mankind. This work marks the beginning of a journey – the journey towards machines with conscious action and artificially accelerated human evolution.

Download or read book Data Mining and Reverse Engineering written by S. Spaccapietra and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Data Mining and Analytics written by Kris Jamsa and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Mining and Analytics provides a broad and interactive overview of a rapidly growing field. The exponentially increasing rate at which data is generated creates a corresponding need for professionals who can effectively handle its storage, analysis, and translation.

Download or read book Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics written by Elena Marchiori and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2007, held in Valencia, Spain, April 2007. Coverage brings together experts in computer science with experts in bioinformatics and the biological sciences. It presents contributions on fundamental and theoretical issues along with papers dealing with different applications areas.

Download or read book Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics written by Clara Pizzuti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2011, held in Torino, Italy, in April 2011 co-located with the Evo* 2011 events. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 7 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. All papers included topics of interest such as biomarker discovery, cell simulation and modeling, ecological modeling, fluxomics, gene networks, biotechnology, metabolomics, microarray analysis, phylogenetics, protein interactions, proteomics, sequence analysis and alignment, and systems biology.

Download or read book Data Mining written by Ian H. Witten and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts combined with practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. Clearly written and effectively illustrated, this book is ideal for anyone involved at any level in the work of extracting usable knowledge from large collections of data. Complementing the book's instruction is fully functional machine learning software.

Download or read book Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition written by Petra Perner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNAI 10934 and LNAI 10935 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2018, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2018. The 92 regular papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The topics range from theoretical topics for classification, clustering, association rule and pattern mining to specific data mining methods for the different multi-media data types such as image mining, text mining, video mining, and Web mining.

Download or read book Metalearning written by Pavel Brazdil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metalearning is the study of principled methods that exploit metaknowledge to obtain efficient models and solutions by adapting machine learning and data mining processes. While the variety of machine learning and data mining techniques now available can, in principle, provide good model solutions, a methodology is still needed to guide the search for the most appropriate model in an efficient way. Metalearning provides one such methodology that allows systems to become more effective through experience. This book discusses several approaches to obtaining knowledge concerning the performance of machine learning and data mining algorithms. It shows how this knowledge can be reused to select, combine, compose and adapt both algorithms and models to yield faster, more effective solutions to data mining problems. It can thus help developers improve their algorithms and also develop learning systems that can improve themselves. The book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the areas of machine learning, data mining and artificial intelligence.

Download or read book Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition written by Petra Perner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNAI 10934 and LNAI 10935 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2018, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2018. The 92 regular papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The topics range from theoretical topics for classification, clustering, association rule and pattern mining to specific data mining methods for the different multi-media data types such as image mining, text mining, video mining, and Web mining.

Download or read book Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics written by Mario Giacobini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2012, held in Málaga, Spain, in April 2012 co-located with the Evo* 2012 events. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Computational Biology is a wide and varied discipline, incorporating aspects of statistical analysis, data structure and algorithm design, machine learning, and mathematical modeling toward the processing and improved understanding of biological data. Experimentalists now routinely generate new information on such a massive scale that the techniques of computer science are needed to establish any meaningful result. As a consequence, biologists now face the challenges of algorithmic complexity and tractability, and combinatorial explosion when conducting even basic analyses.

Download or read book Data Mining with R written by Luis Torgo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies, Second Edition uses practical examples to illustrate the power of R and data mining. Providing an extensive update to the best-selling first edition, this new edition is divided into two parts. The first part will feature introductory material, including a new chapter that provides an introduction to data mining, to complement the already existing introduction to R. The second part includes case studies, and the new edition strongly revises the R code of the case studies making it more up-to-date with recent packages that have emerged in R. The book does not assume any prior knowledge about R. Readers who are new to R and data mining should be able to follow the case studies, and they are designed to be self-contained so the reader can start anywhere in the document. The book is accompanied by a set of freely available R source files that can be obtained at the book’s web site. These files include all the code used in the case studies, and they facilitate the "do-it-yourself" approach followed in the book. Designed for users of data analysis tools, as well as researchers and developers, the book should be useful for anyone interested in entering the "world" of R and data mining. About the Author Luís Torgo is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Porto in Portugal. He teaches Data Mining in R in the NYU Stern School of Business’ MS in Business Analytics program. An active researcher in machine learning and data mining for more than 20 years, Dr. Torgo is also a researcher in the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis (LIAAD) of INESC Porto LA.