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1.
Ameyoud, S. Mohamed; Allili, M. Saïd
Multi-modal malware classification with hierarchical consistency and saliency-constrained adversarial training Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 99, 2026, ISSN: 22142134 (ISSN).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Adversarial training, Capability of detection, Classification (of information), Convolution, convolutional neural network, Convolutional neural networks, Detection system, Hierarchical consistency, Hierarchical systems, Malware, Malware classification, Malware classifications, Malware families, Malwares, Multi-modal, Multi-modal learning, Semantics, Vision transformer, Vision transformers
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The increasing complexity of malware, including polymorphic, obfuscated, and adversarial variants, continues to outpace the capabilities of detection systems. Here, we introduce a robust multi-modal hierarchical framework that jointly leverages visual and code-level semantics to enhance malware family and type classification. Our architecture fuses convolutional and transformer-based encoders to extract complementary representations from raw malware binaries and decompiled control-flow functions, enabling a rich, cross-modal understanding of malicious behavior. The classification pipeline follows a two-stage hierarchical protocol, where the predicted malware type informs the family-level classification. This enforces ontological consistency between type and family prediction levels. To further bolster robustness against adversarial and obfuscated malware, we integrate a novel adversarial training strategy that generates plausible perturbations guided by attention distributions. Evaluation on multiple large-scale benchmarks including BODMAS, Malimg, Microsoft BIG 2015, and a curated set of from MalwareBazaar, demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including ResNet, Swin Transformer, and MalBERTv2, across both malware type and family prediction tasks. Notably, our model exhibits outstanding generalization to unpacked, obfuscated, and previously unseen samples, with minimal performance degradation. It achieves accuracy gains of +3-6% over leading methods and exhibits superior resilience under adversarial threat models. These results highlight the effectiveness of hierarchical conditioning, adversarial robustness, and multi-modal fusion in tackling the evolving landscape of malware. The proposed framework thus offers a scalable and generalizable approach for next-generation malware classification in real-world cybersecurity environments. © 2026 Elsevier Ltd.
2.
Ameyoud, S. Mohamed; Allili, M. Saïd
Multi-modal malware classification with hierarchical consistency and saliency-constrained adversarial training Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 99, 2026, ISSN: 22142134 (ISSN).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Adversarial training, Capability of detection, Classification (of information), Convolution, convolutional neural network, Convolutional neural networks, Detection system, Hierarchical consistency, Hierarchical systems, Malware, Malware classification, Malware classifications, Malware families, Malwares, Multi-modal, Multi-modal learning, Semantics, Vision transformer, Vision transformers
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The increasing complexity of malware, including polymorphic, obfuscated, and adversarial variants, continues to outpace the capabilities of detection systems. Here, we introduce a robust multi-modal hierarchical framework that jointly leverages visual and code-level semantics to enhance malware family and type classification. Our architecture fuses convolutional and transformer-based encoders to extract complementary representations from raw malware binaries and decompiled control-flow functions, enabling a rich, cross-modal understanding of malicious behavior. The classification pipeline follows a two-stage hierarchical protocol, where the predicted malware type informs the family-level classification. This enforces ontological consistency between type and family prediction levels. To further bolster robustness against adversarial and obfuscated malware, we integrate a novel adversarial training strategy that generates plausible perturbations guided by attention distributions. Evaluation on multiple large-scale benchmarks including BODMAS, Malimg, Microsoft BIG 2015, and a curated set of from MalwareBazaar, demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including ResNet, Swin Transformer, and MalBERTv2, across both malware type and family prediction tasks. Notably, our model exhibits outstanding generalization to unpacked, obfuscated, and previously unseen samples, with minimal performance degradation. It achieves accuracy gains of +3-6% over leading methods and exhibits superior resilience under adversarial threat models. These results highlight the effectiveness of hierarchical conditioning, adversarial robustness, and multi-modal fusion in tackling the evolving landscape of malware. The proposed framework thus offers a scalable and generalizable approach for next-generation malware classification in real-world cybersecurity environments. © 2026 Elsevier Ltd.
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Malasi, J. -J. M.; Moudoud, H.; Missaoui, R.
A Lightweight Multimodal LLM-Based Intrusion Detection System for Open RAN Article d'actes
Dans: IEEE Wirel. Commun. Netw. Conf. Workshops, WCNCW, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026, ISBN: 979-833157731-5 (ISBN), (Journal Abbreviation: IEEE Wirel. Commun. Netw. Conf. Workshops, WCNCW).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Benchmarking, Computational linguistics, Computer crime, Cyber security, Cybersecurity, Embedded systems, Embeddings, Intelligent controllers, Internet protocols, Intrusion Detection, intrusion detection system, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Intrusion Detection Systems, Language model, Large language model, Large Language Models (LLMs), Mobile telecommunication systems, Multi-modal, Multi-modal learning, Multimodal Learning, Network security, Open RAN, Pipelines, RAN intelligent controller, RAN intelligent controller (RIC), Semantics
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title = {A Lightweight Multimodal LLM-Based Intrusion Detection System for Open RAN},
author = {J. -J. M. Malasi and H. Moudoud and R. Missaoui},
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booktitle = {IEEE Wirel. Commun. Netw. Conf. Workshops, WCNCW},
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abstract = {Open Radio Access Network architectures introduce unprecedented openness and programmability through RAN Intelligent Controllers, expanding the attack surface beyond traditional volumetric threats. Most existing intrusion detection systems for fifth-generation mobile networks and ORAN rely primarily on numerical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), often overlooking the security-relevant semantics embedded in logs and control messages. This paper proposes LLM4IDS, a semantic-aware and multimodal intrusion detection system that fuses lightweight Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings of textified events with traditional tabular KPIs in a compact Transformer-based classifier. Evaluated on the realworld OpenIreland O-RAN dataset and two classical IP network benchmarks (UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017), LLM4IDS consistently matches or surpasses strong tabular baselines while maintaining high efficiency. On OpenIreland, it reaches nearperfect detection (F1-score $textbackslashapprox 1.0$) and yields large gains for application-layer and volumetric attacks compared to KPI-only models. Across datasets, the classifier maintains an approximately 4 MB footprint and sub-millisecond CPU inference latency; the frozen sentence-LLM encoder can be shared across tasks, and its embeddings can be cached or precomputed when required by the deployment pipeline. These results indicate that integrating semantic context through multimodal fusion can significantly enhance intrusion detection in O-RAN while remaining competitive on standard IP-based IDS tasks. To the best of our knowledge, this work is among the first to study a complete multimodal LLM-based IDS pipeline for O-RAN data with cross-domain evaluation on both O-RAN and classical IP benchmarks. © 2026 IEEE.},
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Open Radio Access Network architectures introduce unprecedented openness and programmability through RAN Intelligent Controllers, expanding the attack surface beyond traditional volumetric threats. Most existing intrusion detection systems for fifth-generation mobile networks and ORAN rely primarily on numerical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), often overlooking the security-relevant semantics embedded in logs and control messages. This paper proposes LLM4IDS, a semantic-aware and multimodal intrusion detection system that fuses lightweight Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings of textified events with traditional tabular KPIs in a compact Transformer-based classifier. Evaluated on the realworld OpenIreland O-RAN dataset and two classical IP network benchmarks (UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017), LLM4IDS consistently matches or surpasses strong tabular baselines while maintaining high efficiency. On OpenIreland, it reaches nearperfect detection (F1-score $textbackslashapprox 1.0$) and yields large gains for application-layer and volumetric attacks compared to KPI-only models. Across datasets, the classifier maintains an approximately 4 MB footprint and sub-millisecond CPU inference latency; the frozen sentence-LLM encoder can be shared across tasks, and its embeddings can be cached or precomputed when required by the deployment pipeline. These results indicate that integrating semantic context through multimodal fusion can significantly enhance intrusion detection in O-RAN while remaining competitive on standard IP-based IDS tasks. To the best of our knowledge, this work is among the first to study a complete multimodal LLM-based IDS pipeline for O-RAN data with cross-domain evaluation on both O-RAN and classical IP benchmarks. © 2026 IEEE.
4.
Ameyoud, S. Mohamed; Allili, M. Saïd
Multi-modal malware classification with hierarchical consistency and saliency-constrained adversarial training Article de journal
Dans: Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 99, 2026, ISSN: 22142134 (ISSN).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Adversarial training, Capability of detection, Classification (of information), Convolution, convolutional neural network, Convolutional neural networks, Detection system, Hierarchical consistency, Hierarchical systems, Malware, Malware classification, Malware classifications, Malware families, Malwares, Multi-modal, Multi-modal learning, Semantics, Vision transformer, Vision transformers
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abstract = {The increasing complexity of malware, including polymorphic, obfuscated, and adversarial variants, continues to outpace the capabilities of detection systems. Here, we introduce a robust multi-modal hierarchical framework that jointly leverages visual and code-level semantics to enhance malware family and type classification. Our architecture fuses convolutional and transformer-based encoders to extract complementary representations from raw malware binaries and decompiled control-flow functions, enabling a rich, cross-modal understanding of malicious behavior. The classification pipeline follows a two-stage hierarchical protocol, where the predicted malware type informs the family-level classification. This enforces ontological consistency between type and family prediction levels. To further bolster robustness against adversarial and obfuscated malware, we integrate a novel adversarial training strategy that generates plausible perturbations guided by attention distributions. Evaluation on multiple large-scale benchmarks including BODMAS, Malimg, Microsoft BIG 2015, and a curated set of from MalwareBazaar, demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including ResNet, Swin Transformer, and MalBERTv2, across both malware type and family prediction tasks. Notably, our model exhibits outstanding generalization to unpacked, obfuscated, and previously unseen samples, with minimal performance degradation. It achieves accuracy gains of +3-6% over leading methods and exhibits superior resilience under adversarial threat models. These results highlight the effectiveness of hierarchical conditioning, adversarial robustness, and multi-modal fusion in tackling the evolving landscape of malware. The proposed framework thus offers a scalable and generalizable approach for next-generation malware classification in real-world cybersecurity environments. © 2026 Elsevier Ltd.},
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The increasing complexity of malware, including polymorphic, obfuscated, and adversarial variants, continues to outpace the capabilities of detection systems. Here, we introduce a robust multi-modal hierarchical framework that jointly leverages visual and code-level semantics to enhance malware family and type classification. Our architecture fuses convolutional and transformer-based encoders to extract complementary representations from raw malware binaries and decompiled control-flow functions, enabling a rich, cross-modal understanding of malicious behavior. The classification pipeline follows a two-stage hierarchical protocol, where the predicted malware type informs the family-level classification. This enforces ontological consistency between type and family prediction levels. To further bolster robustness against adversarial and obfuscated malware, we integrate a novel adversarial training strategy that generates plausible perturbations guided by attention distributions. Evaluation on multiple large-scale benchmarks including BODMAS, Malimg, Microsoft BIG 2015, and a curated set of from MalwareBazaar, demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, including ResNet, Swin Transformer, and MalBERTv2, across both malware type and family prediction tasks. Notably, our model exhibits outstanding generalization to unpacked, obfuscated, and previously unseen samples, with minimal performance degradation. It achieves accuracy gains of +3-6% over leading methods and exhibits superior resilience under adversarial threat models. These results highlight the effectiveness of hierarchical conditioning, adversarial robustness, and multi-modal fusion in tackling the evolving landscape of malware. The proposed framework thus offers a scalable and generalizable approach for next-generation malware classification in real-world cybersecurity environments. © 2026 Elsevier Ltd.
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Jalleli, O.; Zhu, Y.; Falk, T. H.
Audio-Visual Cross-Attention for Improved Deepfake Video Detection and Forgery Localization Article d'actes
Dans: Conf. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Syst. Man Cybern., p. 75–79, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025, ISBN: 1062922X (ISSN); 979-833153358-8 (ISBN), (Journal Abbreviation: Conf. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Syst. Man Cybern.).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Artificial intelligence, Audio acoustics, Audio signal processing, Audio-visual, Computer vision, Crossmodal attention, Deepfake detection, Forgery, Generative AI, Localisation, Multi-modal, Video detection, Video forgeries, Visual modalities
@inproceedings{jalleliAudioVisualCrossAttentionImproved2025,
title = {Audio-Visual Cross-Attention for Improved Deepfake Video Detection and Forgery Localization},
author = {O. Jalleli and Y. Zhu and T. H. Falk},
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year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
booktitle = {Conf. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Syst. Man Cybern.},
pages = {75–79},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
abstract = {With the emergence of multi-modal generative models, synthesized videos are becoming increasingly realistic, making the detection of deepfakes extremely challenging. While several video deepfake detection models have shown promising performance, their focus has been primarily on the visual modality. To overcome this limitation, we propose a dualstream framework that fuses visual and auditory information via cross-attention computed between embeddings extracted from pre-trained video and audio encoders. Additionally, we design a weakly-supervised forgery localization head that infers frame-level forgery scores from coarse segment-level labels, minimizing the need for fine-grained annotations and allowing for forgery location characterization. In this paper, we describe our preliminary results showing the proposed model outperforming state-of-the-art detectors on both frame-level localization and sequence-level deepfake detection tasks. Ongoing work focuses on investigating the complementarity between the visual and auditory modalities to improve model robustness and explainability. © 2025 IEEE.},
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With the emergence of multi-modal generative models, synthesized videos are becoming increasingly realistic, making the detection of deepfakes extremely challenging. While several video deepfake detection models have shown promising performance, their focus has been primarily on the visual modality. To overcome this limitation, we propose a dualstream framework that fuses visual and auditory information via cross-attention computed between embeddings extracted from pre-trained video and audio encoders. Additionally, we design a weakly-supervised forgery localization head that infers frame-level forgery scores from coarse segment-level labels, minimizing the need for fine-grained annotations and allowing for forgery location characterization. In this paper, we describe our preliminary results showing the proposed model outperforming state-of-the-art detectors on both frame-level localization and sequence-level deepfake detection tasks. Ongoing work focuses on investigating the complementarity between the visual and auditory modalities to improve model robustness and explainability. © 2025 IEEE.
6.
Boulmerka, A.; Allili, M. S.
Thresholding-based segmentation revisited using mixtures of generalized Gaussian distributions Article d'actes
Dans: Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, p. 2894–2897, Tsukuba, 2012, ISSN: 10514651, (ISSN: 10514651).
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Arbitrary number, Gaussian noise (electronic), Generalized Gaussian Distributions, Heavy-tailed, Image segmentation, Kittler, Minimum error thresholding, Multi-modal, New approaches, Non-Gaussian, Otsu's method, Pattern Recognition, State-of-the-art techniques, Synthetic data
@inproceedings{boulmerka_thresholding-based_2012,
title = {Thresholding-based segmentation revisited using mixtures of generalized Gaussian distributions},
author = {A. Boulmerka and M. S. Allili},
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year = {2012},
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abstract = {This paper presents a new approach to image-thresholding-based segmentation. It considerably improves existing methods by efficiently modeling non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional distributions. The proposed approach seamlessly: 1) extends the Otsu's method to arbitrary numbers of thresholds and 2) extends the Kittler and Illingworth minimum error thresholding to non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional data. We use the recently-proposed mixture of generalized Gaussian distributions (MoGG) modeling, which enables to efficiently represent heavy-tailed data, as well as multi-modal histograms with flat and sharply-shaped peaks. Experiments performed on synthetic data and real-world image segmentation show the performance of the proposed approach with comparison to recent state-of-the-art techniques. © 2012 ICPR Org Committee.},
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This paper presents a new approach to image-thresholding-based segmentation. It considerably improves existing methods by efficiently modeling non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional distributions. The proposed approach seamlessly: 1) extends the Otsu's method to arbitrary numbers of thresholds and 2) extends the Kittler and Illingworth minimum error thresholding to non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional data. We use the recently-proposed mixture of generalized Gaussian distributions (MoGG) modeling, which enables to efficiently represent heavy-tailed data, as well as multi-modal histograms with flat and sharply-shaped peaks. Experiments performed on synthetic data and real-world image segmentation show the performance of the proposed approach with comparison to recent state-of-the-art techniques. © 2012 ICPR Org Committee.
7.
Boulmerka, A.; Allili, M. S.
Thresholding-based segmentation revisited using mixtures of generalized Gaussian distributions Article d'actes
Dans: Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition, p. 2894–2897, Tsukuba, 2012, ISSN: 10514651.
Résumé | Liens | BibTeX | Étiquettes: Arbitrary number, Gaussian noise (electronic), Generalized Gaussian Distributions, Heavy-tailed, Image segmentation, Kittler, Minimum error thresholding, Multi-modal, New approaches, Non-Gaussian, Otsu's method, Pattern Recognition, State-of-the-art techniques, Synthetic data
@inproceedings{boulmerkaThresholdingbasedSegmentationRevisited2012,
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keywords = {Arbitrary number, Gaussian noise (electronic), Generalized Gaussian Distributions, Heavy-tailed, Image segmentation, Kittler, Minimum error thresholding, Multi-modal, New approaches, Non-Gaussian, Otsu's method, Pattern Recognition, State-of-the-art techniques, Synthetic data},
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This paper presents a new approach to image-thresholding-based segmentation. It considerably improves existing methods by efficiently modeling non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional distributions. The proposed approach seamlessly: 1) extends the Otsu's method to arbitrary numbers of thresholds and 2) extends the Kittler and Illingworth minimum error thresholding to non-Gaussian and multi-modal class-conditional data. We use the recently-proposed mixture of generalized Gaussian distributions (MoGG) modeling, which enables to efficiently represent heavy-tailed data, as well as multi-modal histograms with flat and sharply-shaped peaks. Experiments performed on synthetic data and real-world image segmentation show the performance of the proposed approach with comparison to recent state-of-the-art techniques. © 2012 ICPR Org Committee.