A novel method for malware detection on ML-based visualization technique

doi:10.1016/j.cose.2019.101682

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A novel method for malware detection on ML-based visualization technique

2020-02-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.cose.2019.101682

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Malware detection is one of the challenging tasks in network security. With the flourishment of network techniques and mobile devices, the threat from malwares has been of an increasing significance, such as metamorphic malwares, zero-day attack, and code obfuscation, etc. Many machine learning (ML)-based malware detection methods are proposed to address this problem. However, considering the attacks from adversarial examples (AEs) and exponential increase in the malware variant thriving nowadays, malware detection is still an active field of research. To overcome the current limitation, we proposed a novel method using data visualization and adversarial training on ML-based detectors to efficiently detect the different types of malwares and their variants. Experimental results on the MS BIG malware database and the Ember database demonstrate that the proposed method is able to prevent the zero-day attack and achieve up to 97.73% accuracy, along with 96.25% in average for all the malwares tested. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Malware detection

Adversarial training

Adversarial examples

Image texture

Data visualization

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