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Research output

Publications

Papers with a lab member as an author (lab members in bold). Entries tagged advised in Brazil are from before Prof. Botacin joined Texas A&M. For his complete record, see Google Scholar.

2026 ACSAC

AutoPYara: Next-Gen YARA Rule Generator for Malware Family Clustering

Mabon Ninan*, Nhat Minh Nguyen*, Soumyajyoti Dutta, Sidharth Anil, Marcus Botacin. *Equal contribution. To appear.

YARAclustering

2026 TAISAP

When GANs meet LLMs: Bridging the Feature-Problem space gap for efficient adversarial ML-based malware generation

Dondapati et al.

adversarial MLmalware generation

2025 USENIX WOOT

Making Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Noisy Keyboards Viable with LLM-Assisted Spectrograms Typo Correction

Ayati et al.

side channelsLLM

2025 DIMVA

Towards Explainable Drift Detection and Early Retrain in ML-Based Malware Detection Pipelines

Jayesh Tripathi, Heitor Gomes, Marcus Botacin.

concept driftexplainability

2021 Computers & Security

AntiViruses under the Microscope: A Hands-On Perspective

Marcus Botacin, Felipe Duarte Domingues, Fabrício Ceschin, Raphael Machnicki, Marco Antonio Zanata Alves, Paulo Lício de Geus, André Grégio.

antivirusadvised in Brazil

2020 DIMVA

On the Security of Application Installers and Online Software Repositories

Marcus Botacin, Giovanni Bertão, Paulo de Geus, André Grégio, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna.

software supply chainadvised in Brazil

2019 ACM ROOTS

RevEngE is a Dish Served Cold: Debug-Oriented Malware Decompilation and Reassembly

Marcus Botacin, Lucas Galante, Paulo de Geus, André Grégio.

reverse engineeringadvised in Brazil

2019 IEEE ReCoSoC

The AV says: Your hardware definitions were updated!

Marcus Botacin, Lucas Galante, Fabrício Ceschin, Paulo C. Santos, Luigi Carro, Paulo de Geus, André Grégio, Marco A. Z. Alves.

hardwareadvised in Brazil

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