Cost-Aware Hierarchical Multi-Agent Ransomware Detection and Family Attribution
2026-09-07 12:00Science🔥 42.2 heat score
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The researchers proposed an adaptive ransomware detection scheme called “HMAS” (HMAS). This system organizes specialized agents into hierarchical domain controllers, which are coordinated by a meta-architect. Its core mechanism involves using static analysis as the initial low-cost mode; dynamic and memory modes are only selectively used for verification when confidence is insufficient or when there are disagreements among expert agents. Experimental comparisons showed that HMAS achieved an accuracy of 96.57%, an F1 score of 0.96, and an ROC-AUC of 0.99 in binary classification detection, with a macro F1 score of 0.90 for family attribution. Compared with exhaustive analysis strategies, HMAS reduced the average analysis cost by 43.97% and significantly decreased the average delay. Routing analysis indicated that 56.05% of cases could be resolved with only static evidence, while only 4.33% required a complete evidence pipeline.