Hamed Alqahtani1, Gulshan Kumar2,*
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.2, pp. 1439-1479, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.067738
- 31 August 2025
Abstract Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) continue to pose a significant threat in modern malware infrastructures by enabling resilient and evasive communication with Command and Control (C&C) servers. Traditional detection methods—rooted in statistical heuristics, feature engineering, and shallow machine learning—struggle to adapt to the increasing sophistication, linguistic mimicry, and adversarial variability of DGA variants. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) marks a transformative shift in this landscape. Leveraging deep contextual understanding, semantic generalization, and few-shot learning capabilities, LLMs such as BERT, GPT, and T5 have shown promising results in detecting both character-based and dictionary-based DGAs, including… More >