Trace of the Times: Rootkit Detection through Temporal Anomalies in Kernel Activity

arXiv:2503.02402 · cs.CR · Submitted 2025-03-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR

Submitted: 2025-03-04

Updated: 2025-03-04

Code: https://github.com/ait-aecid/caraxes

Terminology

• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Concept Drift — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Loaded Kernel Modules — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Kernel-level Rootkit Detection, Prevention and Behavior Profiling: A Taxonomy and Survey

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