Malware classification with word embedding features

AS Kale, F Di Troia, M Stamp - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02711, 2021 - arxiv.org
Malware classification is an important and challenging problem in information security.
Modern malware classification techniques rely on machine learning models that can be …

Malware classification with word2vec, hmm2vec, bert, and elmo

AS Kale, V Pandya, F Di Troia, M Stamp - Journal of Computer Virology …, 2023 - Springer
Malware classification is an important and challenging problem in information security.
Modern malware classification techniques rely on machine learning models that can be …

A natural language processing approach to Malware classification

R Mehta, O Jurečková, M Stamp - Journal of Computer Virology and …, 2024 - Springer
Many different machine learning and deep learning techniques have been successfully
employed for malware detection and classification. Examples of popular learning techniques …

Malware Classification using API Call Information and Word Embeddings

S Aggarwal - 2023 - scholarworks.sjsu.edu
Malware classification is the process of classifying malware into recognizable categories
and is an integral part of implementing computer security. In recent times, machine learning …

Virus-MNIST: A benchmark malware dataset

D Noever, SEM Noever - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00602, 2021 - arxiv.org
The short note presents an image classification dataset consisting of 10 executable code
varieties and approximately 50,000 virus examples. The malicious classes include 9 families …

An investigation of byte n-gram features for malware classification

E Raff, R Zak, R Cox, J Sylvester, P Yacci… - Journal of Computer …, 2018 - Springer
Malware classification using machine learning algorithms is a difficult task, in part due to the
absence of strong natural features in raw executable binary files. Byte n-grams previously …

Decoding the secrets of machine learning in malware classification: A deep dive into datasets, feature extraction, and model performance

S Dambra, Y Han, S Aonzo, P Kotzias, A Vitale… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Many studies have proposed machine-learning (ML) models for malware detection and
classification, reporting an almost-perfect performance. However, they assemble ground …

A comparison of word2vec, hmm2vec, and pca2vec for malware classification

A Chandak, W Lee, M Stamp - Malware analysis using artificial intelligence …, 2021 - Springer
Word embeddings are often used in natural language processing as a means to quantify
relationships between words. More generally, these same word embedding techniques can …

Scalable malware classification with multifaceted content features and threat intelligence

X Hu, J Jang, T Wang, Z Ashraf… - IBM Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed the very rapid increase in both the volume and sophistication
of malware programs. Malware authors invest heavily in technologies and capabilities to …

A survey of machine learning methods and challenges for windows malware classification

E Raff, C Nicholas - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09271, 2020 - arxiv.org
Malware classification is a difficult problem, to which machine learning methods have been
applied for decades. Yet progress has often been slow, in part due to a number of unique …