A Cautionary Tale About Detecting Malware Using Hardware Performance Counters and Machine Learning

Editor's note: This article revisits the literature around the use of hardware performance counters for malware detection, highlighting discrepancies, and providing a retrospection of challenges for future research. -Rosario Cammarota, Intel Labs -Francesco Regazzoni, University of Amsterdam and Universita della Svizzera Italiana.

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The article revisits the literature on using hardware performance counters for malware detection, highlighting discrepancies and providing a retrospective of challenges for future research.