| Title | A Weak Coupling of Semi-Supervised Learning with Generative Adversarial Networks for Malware Classification |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Wang, Shuwei, Wang, Qiuyun, Jiang, Zhengwei, Wang, Xuren, Jing, Rongqi |
| Conference Name | 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) |
| Date Published | jan |
| Keywords | classification, Couplings, Deep Learning, generative adversarial networks, Human Behavior, Malware, malware classification, Market research, Neural networks, Predictive Metrics, privacy, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Semisupervised learning, Technological innovation |
| Abstract | Malware classification helps to understand its purpose and is also an important part of attack detection. And it is also an important part of discovering attacks. Due to continuous innovation and development of artificial intelligence, it is a trend to combine deep learning with malware classification. In this paper, we propose an improved malware image rescaling algorithm (IMIR) based on local mean algorithm. Its main goal of IMIR is to reduce the loss of information from samples during the process of converting binary files to image files. Therefore, we construct a neural network structure based on VGG model, which is suitable for image classification. In the real world, a mass of malware family labels are inaccurate or lacking. To deal with this situation, we propose a novel method to train the deep neural network by Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Network (SGAN), which only needs a small amount of malware that have accurate labels about families. By integrating SGAN with weak coupling, we can retain the weak links of supervised part and unsupervised part of SGAN. It improves the accuracy of malware classification by making classifiers more independent of discriminators. The results of experimental demonstrate that our model achieves exhibiting favorable performance. The recalls of each family in our data set are all higher than 93.75%. |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412832 |
| Citation Key | wang_weak_2021 |
A Weak Coupling of Semi-Supervised Learning with Generative Adversarial Networks for Malware Classification