title = "{AIMED}: Evolving Malware with Genetic Programming to
Evade Detection",
booktitle = "2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust,
Security And Privacy In Computing And
Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On
Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE)",
DOI = "doi:10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00040",
size = "8 pages",
abstract = "Genetic Programming (GP) has previously proved to
achieve valuable results on the fields of image
processing and arcade learning. Similarly, it can be
used as an adversarial learning approach to evolve
malware samples until static learning classifiers are
no longer able to detect it. While the implementation
is relatively simple compared with other Machine
Learning approaches, results proved that GP can be a
competitive solution to find adversarial malware
examples comparing with similar methods. Thus, AIMED
(Automatic Intelligent Malware Modifications to Evade
Detection) was designed and implemented using genetic
algorithms to evade malware classifiers. Our
experiments suggest that the time to achieve
adversarial malware samples can be reduced up to
50percent compared to classic random approaches.
Moreover, we implemented AIMED to generate adversarial
examples using individual malware scanners as target
and tested the evasive files against further
classifiers from both research and industry. The
generated examples achieved up to 82percent of
cross-evasion rates among the classifiers.",