What Malware Actually Does: An Empirical Analysis of Post-Infection Behavior Across Malware Families

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Emmanuela Andam, Emanuel S. Grant, Naima Kaabouch)

Summary by Cyber Security News4 Nov 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2611.03774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most malware detection research focuses on identifying whether a file is malicious before it executes. Far less attention goes to what happens after infection. This paper presents an empirical analysis of post-infection malware behavior across 37 families, grounded in dynamic sandbox execution using CAPEv2.

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