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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Malware classification using deep learning methods

B Cakir, E Dogdu - Proceedings of the ACMSE 2018 Conference, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Malware, short for Malicious Software, is growing continuously in numbers and
sophistication as our digital world continuous to grow. It is a very serious problem and many …

Malware classification using word embeddings algorithms and long‐short term memory networks

EO Andrade, J Viterbo, J Guérin… - Computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The number of malicious software applications, or malware programs, increases every year.
Their development becomes more sophisticated as new techniques are used to bypass …

Long short-term memory-based malware classification method for information security

J Kang, S Jang, S Li, YS Jeong, Y Sung - Computers & Electrical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Signature-based malware detection approaches are inadequate for detecting the
increasingly intelligent and large number of malware programs emerging today. Therefore …

Malicious software classification using VGG16 deep neural network's bottleneck features

E Rezende, G Ruppert, T Carvalho, A Theophilo… - … -New Generations: 15th …, 2018 - Springer
Malicious software (malware) has been extensively employed for illegal purposes and
thousands of new samples are discovered every day. The ability to classify samples with …

Convolutional neural networks and extreme learning machines for malware classification

M Jain, W Andreopoulos, M Stamp - Journal of Computer Virology and …, 2020 - Springer
Research in the field of malware classification often relies on machine learning models that
are trained on high-level features, such as opcodes, function calls, and control flow graphs …