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Guodong Zhou 0002
dblp:42/6620-2
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0005-8491-273XORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Malware analysis · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Compilers and program optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Malware analysis › malware detection
PDF malware detection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model · CCS 2025 |
Compilers and program optimization
intermediate representation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model · CCS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
semantic feature extraction · 1.7object reference graph · 1.7language model · 1.7intermediate representation · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language ModelabstractMalicious PDF files have emerged as a persistent threat and become a popular attack vector in web-based attacks. While machine learning-based PDF malware classifiers have shown promise, these classifiers are often susceptible to adversarial attacks, undermining their reliability. To address this issue, recent studies have aimed to enhance the robustness of PDF classifiers. Despite these efforts, the feature engineering underlying these studies remains outdated. Consequently, even with the application of cutting-edge machine learning techniques, these approaches fail to fundamentally resolve the issue of feature instability. To tackle this, we propose a novel approach for PDF feature extraction and PDF malware detection. We introduce the PDFObj IR (PDF Object Intermediate Representation), an assembly-like language framework for PDF objects, from which we extract semantic features using a pretrained language model. Additionally, we construct an Object Reference Graph to capture structural features, drawing inspiration from program analysis. This dual approach enables us to analyze and detect PDF malware based on both semantic and structural features. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed classifier achieves strong adversarial robustness while maintaining an exceptionally low false positive rate of only 0.07% on baseline dataset compared to state-of-the-art PDF malware classifiers. Side Liu, Jiang Ming 0002, Guodong Zhou 0002, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng |
CCS | 3 |