Visible to the public Taxonomy-Based Intelligent Malware Detection Framework

TitleTaxonomy-Based Intelligent Malware Detection Framework
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsAli Mirza, Qublai K., Hussain, Fatima, Awan, Irfan, Younas, Muhammad, Sharieh, Salah
Conference Name2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Keywordspredictability, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, Security Heuristics
AbstractTimely detection of a malicious piece of code accurately, in an enterprise network or in an individual device, before it propagates and mutate itself, is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of cyber security. Millions of variants of each latest malware are released every day and each of these variants have a unique static signature. Conventional anti-malware tools use signatures and static heuristics of malware to segregate them from legitimate files, which is not an effective technique because of the number of malware variants released every passing day. To overcome the fundamental flaw of operational techniques, we propose a framework that generalizes the static and dynamic malwarefeaturesthatareusedtotrainmultiplemachinelearning algorithms. The generalization of clean and malicious features enables the framework to accurately differentiate between clean and malicious files.
DOI10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013526
Citation Keyali_mirza_taxonomy-based_2019