Marcus Botacin

Most-cited papers

Challenges and pitfalls in malware research
Marcus Botacin, Fabrício Ceschin, Ruimin Sun, Daniela Oliveira +1 more
2021Computers & security56 citations Open access
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Machine Learning (In) Security: A Stream of Problems
Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, A. Bifet, Bernhard Pfahringer +3 more
2020DTRAP51 citations Open access
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GPThreats-3: Is Automatic Malware Generation a Threat?
Marcus Botacin
20232023 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)47 citations
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Shallow Security: on the Creation of Adversarial Variants to Evade Machine Learning-Based Malware Detectors
Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes, L. Oliveira +1 more
2019Proceedings of the 3rd Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium44 citations
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We need to talk about antiviruses: challenges & pitfalls of AV evaluations
Marcus Botacin, Fabrício Ceschin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2020Computers & security43 citations
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Fast & Furious: Modelling Malware Detection as Evolving Data Streams
Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Felipe Pinag'e +2 more
2022Expert systems with applications35 citations Open access
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AntiViruses under the microscope: A hands-on perspective
Marcus Botacin, Felipe Duarte Domingues, Fabrício Ceschin, R. Machnicki +3 more
2021Computers & security34 citations
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The other guys: automated analysis of marginalized malware
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2018Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques27 citations
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HEAVEN: A Hardware-Enhanced AntiVirus ENgine to accelerate real-time, signature-based malware detection
Marcus Botacin, M. Alves, D. Oliveira, A. Grégio
2022Expert systems with applications26 citations Open access
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Enhancing Branch Monitoring for Security Purposes: From Control Flow Integrity to Malware Analysis and Debugging
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2018TOPS20 citations
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One Size Does Not Fit All: A Longitudinal Analysis of Brazilian Financial Malware
Marcus Botacin, H. Aghakhani, Stefano Ortolani, C. Kruegel +4 more
202019 citations
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L(a)ying in (Test)Bed - How Biased Datasets Produce Impractical Results for Actual Malware Families' Classification
Tamy Beppler, Marcus Botacin, Fabrício Ceschin, L. Oliveira +1 more
2019Information Security Conference19 citations
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The Internet Banking [in]Security Spiral: Past, Present, and Future of Online Banking Protection Mechanisms based on a Brazilian case study
Marcus Botacin, Anatoli Kalysch, A. Grégio
2019ARES19 citations
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RevEngE is a dish served cold: Debug-Oriented Malware Decompilation and Reassembly
Marcus Botacin, Lucas Galante, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2019Proceedings of the 3rd Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium19 citations
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Understanding uses and misuses of similarity hashing functions for malware detection and family clustering in actual scenarios
Marcus Botacin, V. Moia, Fabrício Ceschin, M. A. Henriques +1 more
2021Digital Investigation. The International Journal of Digital Forensics and Incident Response17 citations
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No Need to Teach New Tricks to Old Malware: Winning an Evasion Challenge with XOR-based Adversarial Samples
Fabrício Ceschin, Marcus Botacin, Gabriel Lüders, Heitor Murilo Gomes +2 more
2020Reversing and Offensive-Oriented Trends Symposium16 citations
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“VANILLA” malware: vanishing antiviruses by interleaving layers and layers of attacks
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2019Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques16 citations
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A Game-Based Framework to Compare Program Classifiers and Evaders
Thaís Damásio, Michael Canesche, Vinícius Pacheco, Marcus Botacin +2 more
2023IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization15 citations Open access
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Enhancing Malware Family Classification in the Microsoft Challenge Dataset via Transfer Learning
Marcelo Invert Palma Salas, P. D. de Geus, Marcus Botacin
2023Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing14 citations Open access
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Near-Memory & In-Memory Detection of Fileless Malware
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, M. Alves
2020International Symposium on Memory Systems14 citations
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One Size Does Not Fit All
Marcus Botacin, H. Aghakhani, Stefano Ortolani, C. Kruegel +4 more
2021ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security12 citations
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ML-Based Behavioral Malware Detection Is Far From a Solved Problem
Yiğitcan Kaya, Yizheng Chen, Marcus Botacin, Shoumik Saha +4 more
20242025 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML)11 citations Open access
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A Praise for Defensive Programming: Leveraging Uncertainty for Effective Malware Mitigation
Ruimin Sun, Marcus Botacin, Nikolaos Sapountzis, Xiaoyong Yuan +5 more
2020IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10 citations Open access
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The self modifying code (SMC)-aware processor (SAP): a security look on architectural impact and support
Marcus Botacin, Marco Zanata, A. Grégio
2020Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques9 citations
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On the Security of Application Installers and Online Software Repositories
Marcus Botacin, Giovanni Bertão, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio +2 more
2020International Conference on Detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment8 citations
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Why We Need a Theory of Maliciousness: Hardware Performance Counters in Security
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio
2022Information Security Conference7 citations
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The AV says: Your Hardware Definitions Were Updated!
Marcus Botacin, Lucas Galante, Fabrício Ceschin, P. C. Santos +4 more
2019Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip7 citations
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Who Watches the Watchmen
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2018ACM Computing Surveys7 citations
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Analysis, Anti-Analysis, Anti-Anti-Analysis: An Overview of the Evasive Malware Scenario
Marcus Botacin, Vitor Falcão da Rocha, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2017Anais do XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg 2017)5 citations Open access
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Terminator: A Secure Coprocessor to Accelerate Real-Time AntiViruses Using Inspection Breakpoints
Marcus Botacin, Francis B. Moreira, P. Navaux, A. Grégio +1 more
2022ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security4 citations
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An Empirical Study on the Blocking of HTTP and DNS Requests at Providers Level to Counter In-The-Wild Malware Infections
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2020Anais do XX Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg 2020)4 citations Open access
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Malicious Linux Binaries: A Landscape
Lucas Galante, Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, P. D. de Geus
2018Anais Estendidos do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg Estendido 2018)4 citations Open access
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Malware MultiVerse: From Automatic Logic Bomb Identification to Automatic Patching and Tracing
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio
2021arXiv.org3 citations
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Machine Learning for Malware Detection: Beyond Accuracy Rates
Lucas Galante, Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, P. D. de Geus
2019Anais Estendidos do XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg Estendido 2019)3 citations Open access
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Does Your Threat Model Consider Country and Culture? A Case Study of Brazilian Internet Banking Security to Show That It Should!
Marcus Botacin
20212 citations
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Leveraging branch traces to understand kernel internals from within
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2020Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques2 citations
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Malware Variants Identiﬁcation in Practice
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, P. D. de Geus
2019Anais do XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg 2019)1 citations Open access
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Large Scale Studies: Malware Needles in a Haystack
Giovanni Bertão, Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, P. D. de Geus
2018Anais Estendidos do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg Estendido 2018)1 citations Open access
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Hardware-Assisted Malware Analysis
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2018Anais Estendidos do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg Estendido 2018)1 citations Open access
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On the Malware Detection Problem: Challenges & Novel Approaches
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2022Anais Estendidos do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg Estendido 2022)0 citations Open access
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Dissecting Applications Uninstallers and Removers: Are They Effective?
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio
2022Information Security Conference0 citations
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Linux Malware Behavior Description
Lucas Galante, P. D. de Geus, Marcus Botacin
20190 citations Open access
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“VANILLA” malware: vanishing antiviruses by interleaving layers and layers of attacks
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2019Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques0 citations
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Hardware-Assisted Application Misbehavior Detection
Marcus Botacin, A. Grégio, P. D. de Geus
2018Anais do XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg 2018)0 citations Open access
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The other guys: automated analysis of marginalized malware
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus, A. Grégio
2017Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques0 citations
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MALICIOUS SOFTWARE IDENTIFICATION THROUGH OPERATING SYSTEM MONITORING
Marcus Botacin, P. D. de Geus
20150 citations Open access
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