MARS: Malware Analysis with Rule-Based Scoring of LLM Claims

arXiv:2610.09553 · cs.CR, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Comments: 17 pages, 3 figures, 12 tables

Code: https://github.com/mandiant/flare-fakenet-ng

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 49× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Executable and Linkable Format — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Portable Executable — 1× in this paper
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes

Sources

• Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• FacTool: Factuality Detection in Generative AI -- A Tool Augmented Framework for Multi-Task and Multi-Domain Scenarios
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• Identifying Adversary Tactics and Techniques in Malware Binaries with an LLM Agent
• Ignore Previous Prompt: Attack Techniques For Language Models

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