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Charm and beauty quark production measurement represents a fundamental meansto access the initial stage of hadronic collisions. Being produced almostexclusively in initial hard partonic scatterings due to their large masses,$m_{\text{c}}=$ 1.3 $ \text{GeV}/c^2$ and $m_{\text{b}} =$ 4.1 $\text{GeV}/c^2$, charm and beauty quarks are ideal tools to investigate variousQCD aspects. In addition, the corresponding measurements in pp collisionsrepresent a baseline for cold nuclear matter studies in p--A collisions as wellas for the characterization of the hot and dense interacting nuclear matter,the quark--gluon plasma (QGP), formed in A--A interactions.  An analysis technique that was little investigated until now at LHC energiesto measure $\text{c}\bar{\text{c}}$ and $\text{b}\bar{\text{b}}$ cross sectionsconsists in exploring the high-mass regions of the dilepton invariant massspectrum, more precisely the two continuum regions between charmonium andbottomonium resonances $\text{(4} < m_{\mu^{+}\mu^{-}} <\text{ 9 GeV}/c^2$) andabove the bottomonium states ($m_{\mu^{+}\mu^{-}}> $ 11 $ \text{GeV}/c^2$).Indeed, these regions are significantly populated by the semileptonic decays ofhadron pairs containing charm and beauty quarks.  In these proceedings, the status of this study is shown, discussing thedetails of the analysis procedure foreseen to measure the charm and beautycross sections. In particular, the results of PYTHIA8 simulations for ppcollisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV in the rapidity region 2.5 < \textit{y} < 4covered by the ALICE muon spectrometer, crucial to address the differentcomponents to the dimuon yield, are presented.

Measurement of heavy-flavor production in the high-mass dimuon spectrum in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with ALICE