Classifying malware programs is a research area attracting great interest for Anti-Malware industry. In this research, we propose a system that visualizes malware programs as images and distinguishes those using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We study the performance of several well-established CNN based algorithms such as AlexNet, ResNet and VGG16 using transfer learning approaches. We also propose a computationally efficient CNN-based architecture for classification of malware programs. In addition, we study the performance of these CNNs as feature extractors by using Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-nearest Neighbors (kNN) for classification purposes. We also propose fusion methods to boost the performance further. We make use of the publicly available database provided by Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge (BIG 2015) for this study. Our overall performance is 99.4% for a set of 2174 test samples comprising 9 different classes thereby setting a new benchmark.
Convolutional Neural Networks as Classification Tools and Feature Extractors for Distinguishing Malware Programs
2019-07-01
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