On the Performance of Malware Detection Classifiers Using Hardware Performance Counters

arXiv:2608.02671 · cs.CR, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-02 · Read on arXiv

Alireza Abolhasani Zeraatkar, Parnian Shabani Kamran, Inderpreet Kaur, Nagabindu Ramu, Tyler Sheaves, Hussain Al-Asaad

cs.CR, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-02

Journal ref: 2024 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), IEEE, 2024

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 19× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Machine Learning — 16× in this paper
• Ensemble Learning — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hardware Performance Counters — 12× in this paper
• AUC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Machine Learning (ML) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Computational overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems — 1× in this paper
• Class Imbalance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dimensionality Reduction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• False Negatives — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• RAPPER: Ransomware Prevention via Performance Counters

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