The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture is increasingly being applied to new domains, such as malware detection, where it is able to learn malicious behavior from raw bytes extracted from executables. These architectures reach impressive performance with no feature engineering effort involved, but their robustness against active attackers is yet to be understood. Such malware detectors could face a new attack vector in the form of adversarial interference with the classification model. Existing evasion attacks intended to cause misclassification on test-time instances, which have been extensively studied for image classifiers, are not applicable because of the input semantics that prevents arbitrary changes to the binaries. This paper explores the area of adversarial examples for malware detection. By training an existing model on a production-scale dataset, we show that some previous attacks are less effective than initially reported, while simultaneously highlighting architectural weaknesses that facilitate new attack strategies for malware classification. Finally, we explore more generalizable attack strategies that increase the potential effectiveness of evasion attacks.

研究卷积神经网络在恶意软件检测中的应用，探索对抗样本在该领域中的影响，发现之前的攻击不如之前报告的那么有效，同时还存在架构上的弱点，容易遭受新的攻击策略，继而探讨了攻击策略的可变性、提高攻击有效性的权衡以及单步攻击的可转移性。

恶意软件检测中的对抗样本探索