A convolutional neural network (CNN) specializes in processing multidimensional data such as images. CNN models are often used for processing 2-dimensional matrices (images) or audio spectrograms. They are also frequently used for three-dimensional data (videos and volumetric images). …

Packed or compressed executable files have a different structure from other exe files. In general, packers add a new header to the executable, they compress its body and then add a Loader to load the original executable into memory during execution. …

Embedding models are widely used in deep learning applications as it is necessary to convert data from the raw form into a numerical form. There exist many methods for training the embedding, each of them has pros and cons and also their own use-cases. Most of those methods have been…

Medium is a great website where you can find tons of posts and articles but if you are like me, you probably don’t have time to read all of them. …

In one of our previous posts, we showed how to create a malware detector using convolution neural networks by transforming an executable into a gray scale image. In this post, we will see how we can explore the assembly code of an executable to analyze it for malicious content. Starting from the middle… We…

Long time ago, I published some posts about creating a deep learning based malware detector. I gave some examples about features extraction and also how to apply CNNs for malware detection. Today I bring to you a full demo of a deep learning based malware detector. …

Have you ever felt like a bot after failing a captcha? Because I have! Captchas are sometimes so annoying and waste much time. So, I have been thinking about automatically solving a captcha. The first thing that came to mind was to use deep learning. However, I didn’t find a…

Without any introductions, if you want to disassemble an exe file using python, you will need two libraries: pefile and capstone. To install these two, I used the following commands on windows: If those two commands don’t work for you, please consider visiting the official pages of both packages. …

Using the Internet exposes many users to malware. The latter is a software used to violate the security of computer systems in terms of confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. It can add, modify or remove any program from the system to intentionally interfere with its functions. Many protection systems…