Marcus Botacin

42 papers A* 1A 3B 2C 4Journal 25Unranked 7

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	—	`conf`	ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem. SaTML Yigitcan Kaya, Yizheng Chen, Marcus Botacin, Shoumik Saha, Fabio Pierazzi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, David A. Wagner, Tudor Dumitras
2025	—	`conf`	Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms' "Typo" Correction. WOOT Seyyed Ali Ayati, Jin Hyun Park, Yichen Cai, Marcus Botacin
2025	J	`jnl`	Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms' "Typo" Correction. CoRR Seyyed Ali Ayati, Jin Hyun Park, Yichen Cai, Marcus Botacin
2025	J	`jnl`	On the uniqueness of AntiVirus labels: How many labels do we need to fingerprint an AV? J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech. Marcus Botacin
2025	—	`conf`	Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines. DIMVA (2) Jayesh Tripathi, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Marcus Botacin
2025	J	`jnl`	Towards more realistic evaluations: The impact of label delays in malware detection pipelines. Comput. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes
2024	A	`conf`	Cross-Regional Malware Detection via Model Distilling and Federated Learning. RAID Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes
2024	J	`jnl`	Fuzzing and Symbolic Execution for Multipath Malware Tracing: Bridging Theory and Practice via Survey and Experiments. Digit. Threat. Res. Pract. Marcus Botacin
2024	J	`jnl`	Machine Learning (In) Security: A Stream of Problems. DTRAP Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Albert Bifet, Bernhard Pfahringer, Luiz S. Oliveira, Heitor Murilo Gomes, André Grégio
2024	A*	`conf`	SoK: All You Need to Know About On-Device ML Model Extraction - The Gap Between Research and Practice. USENIX Security Symposium Tushar Nayan, Qiming Guo, Mohammed Alduniawi, Marcus Botacin, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Ruimin Sun
2024	C	`conf`	The Use of the DWARF Debugging Format for the Identification of Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) in WebAssembly Binaries. SECRYPT Calebe Helpa, Tiago Heinrich, Marcus Botacin, Newton Carlos Will, Rafael R. Obelheiro, Carlos Alberto Maziero
2024	A	`conf`	What do malware analysts want from academia? A survey on the state-of-the-practice to guide research developments. RAID Marcus Botacin
2023	A	`conf`	A Game-Based Framework to Compare Program Classifiers and Evaders. CGO Thaís Damásio, Michael Canesche, Vinícius Pacheco, Marcus Botacin, Anderson Faustino da Silva, Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira
2023	—	`conf`	Enhancing Malware Family Classification in the Microsoft Challenge Dataset via Transfer Learning. LADC Marcelo Invert Palma Salas, Paulo L. de Geus, Marcus Botacin
2023	J	`jnl`	Fast & Furious: On the modelling of malware detection as an evolving data stream. Expert Syst. Appl. Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Felipe Azevedo Pinage, Luiz S. Oliveira, André Grégio
2023	—	`conf`	GPThreats-3: Is Automatic Malware Generation a Threat? SP (Workshops) Marcus Botacin
2023	J	`jnl`	Introduction to the Special Issue on Memory-Based Malware and Other Unconventional Threats. DTRAP Marcus Botacin, Uriel Kosayev, Ruimin Sun
2022	J	`jnl`	A Praise for Defensive Programming: Leveraging Uncertainty for Effective Malware Mitigation. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. Ruimin Sun, Marcus Botacin, Nikolaos Sapountzis, Xiaoyong Yuan, Matt Bishop, Donald E. Porter, Xiaolin Li, Andre Gregio, Daniela Oliveira
2022	J	`jnl`	AntiViruses under the microscope: A hands-on perspective. Comput. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Felipe Duarte Domingues, Fabrício Ceschin, Raphael Machnicki, Marco Antonio Zanata Alves, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio
2022	C	`conf`	Dissecting Applications Uninstallers and Removers: Are They Effective? ISC Marcus Botacin, André Grégio
2022	J	`jnl`	Fast & Furious: Modelling Malware Detection as Evolving Data Streams. CoRR Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Felipe Azevedo Pinage, Luiz S. Oliveira, André Grégio
2022	J	`jnl`	HEAVEN: A Hardware-Enhanced AntiVirus ENgine to accelerate real-time, signature-based malware detection. Expert Syst. Appl. Marcus Botacin, Marco Antonio Zanata Alves, Daniela Oliveira, André Grégio
2022	J	`jnl`	Terminator: A Secure Coprocessor to Accelerate Real-Time AntiViruses Using Inspection Breakpoints. ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Francis B. Moreira, Philippe O. A. Navaux, André Grégio, Marco A. Z. Alves
2022	C	`conf`	Why We Need a Theory of Maliciousness: Hardware Performance Counters in Security. ISC Marcus Botacin, André Grégio
2021	J	`jnl`	A [in]Segurança dos Sistemas Governamentais Brasileiros: Um Estudo de Caso em Sistemas Web e Redes Abertas. CoRR Marcus Botacin, André Grégio
2021	J	`jnl`	Challenges and pitfalls in malware research. Comput. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Fabricio Ceschin, Ruimin Sun, Daniela Oliveira, André Grégio
2021	J	`jnl`	Malware MultiVerse: From Automatic Logic Bomb Identification to Automatic Patching and Tracing. CoRR Marcus Botacin, André Grégio
2021	J	`jnl`	One Size Does Not Fit All: A Longitudinal Analysis of Brazilian Financial Malware. ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Hojjat Aghakhani, Stefano Ortolani, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Daniela Oliveira, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio
2021	J	`jnl`	Understanding uses and misuses of similarity hashing functions for malware detection and family clustering in actual scenarios. Digit. Investig. Marcus Botacin, Vitor Hugo Galhardo Moia, Fabricio Ceschin, Marco Aurélio Amaral Henriques, André Grégio
2020	J	`jnl`	Leveraging branch traces to understand kernel internals from within. J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech. Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio
2020	J	`jnl`	Machine Learning (In) Security: A Stream of Problems. CoRR Fabricio Ceschin, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Marcus Botacin, Albert Bifet, Bernhard Pfahringer, Luiz S. Oliveira, André Grégio
2020	—	`conf`	Near-Memory & In-Memory Detection of Fileless Malware. MEMSYS Marcus Botacin, André Grégio, Marco Antonio Zanata Alves
2020	B	`conf`	On the Security of Application Installers and Online Software Repositories. DIMVA Marcus Botacin, Giovanni Bertão, Paulo L. de Geus, André Grégio, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
2020	J	`jnl`	The self modifying code (SMC)-aware processor (SAP): a security look on architectural impact and support. J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech. Marcus Botacin, Marco Antonio Zanata Alves, André Grégio
2020	J	`jnl`	We need to talk about antiviruses: challenges & pitfalls of AV evaluations. Comput. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Fabricio Ceschin, Paulo L. de Geus, André Grégio
2019	J	`jnl`	"VANILLA" malware: vanishing antiviruses by interleaving layers and layers of attacks. J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech. Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio
2019	C	`conf`	L(a)ying in (Test)Bed - How Biased Datasets Produce Impractical Results for Actual Malware Families' Classification. ISC Tamy Beppler, Marcus Botacin, Fabricio Ceschin, Luiz E. S. Oliveira, André Grégio
2019	—	`conf`	The AV says: Your Hardware Definitions Were Updated! ReCoSoC Marcus Botacin, Lucas Galante, Fabricio Ceschin, Paulo C. Santos, Luigi Carro, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio, Marco A. Z. Alves
2019	B	`conf`	The Internet Banking [in]Security Spiral: Past, Present, and Future of Online Banking Protection Mechanisms based on a Brazilian case study. ARES Marcus Botacin, Anatoli Kalysch, André Grégio
2018	J	`jnl`	Enhancing Branch Monitoring for Security Purposes: From Control Flow Integrity to Malware Analysis and Debugging. ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio
2018	J	`jnl`	The other guys: automated analysis of marginalized malware. J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech. Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Ricardo Abed Grégio
2018	J	`jnl`	Who Watches the Watchmen: A Security-focused Review on Current State-of-the-art Techniques, Tools, and Methods for Systems and Binary Analysis on Modern Platforms. ACM Comput. Surv. Marcus Botacin, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Ricardo Abed Grégio