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Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Babol Noshirvani University of Technology/Babol/Iran
Abstract
Malware is one of the constant challenges of the modern world, which has particular importance due to the harm it causes to users. In the last decade, there has been a great increase in malware number and complexity that caused the current security tools and methods not able to defend against. Visualizing binary content of malware and searching for malicious elements among suspicious image patterns is one of the new methods that have achieved high progress and efficiency in the last decade thanks to deep learning algorithms. In this research, by combining various ideas that exist in the field of malware image analysis, a suitable algorithm has been presented for classifying malware into their corresponding families. Visualizing the binary content of the malware executable file, applying the GIST descriptor and classifying the extracted features using the SVM classifier forms the proposed algorithm of this research, which can achieve the same results as previous researches by using traditional machine learning methods and obtain average classification accuracy of 99.72 and 99.16% on Malimg and Microsoft datasets.
Khazai, E., & Hassanzadeh, M. (2024). Malware classification based on binary visualization of samples. Electronic and Cyber Defense, 12(3), -.
MLA
Esmail Khazai; Mohammadreza Hassanzadeh. "Malware classification based on binary visualization of samples", Electronic and Cyber Defense, 12, 3, 2024, -.
HARVARD
Khazai, E., Hassanzadeh, M. (2024). 'Malware classification based on binary visualization of samples', Electronic and Cyber Defense, 12(3), pp. -.
VANCOUVER
Khazai, E., Hassanzadeh, M. Malware classification based on binary visualization of samples. Electronic and Cyber Defense, 2024; 12(3): -.
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