Due to continuous increase in the number of malware (according to AV-Test institute total ~8 x 10^8 malware are already known, and every day they register ~2.5 x 10^4 malware) and files in the computational devices, it is very important to design a system which not only effectively but can also efficiently detect the new or previously unseen malware to prevent/minimize the damages. Therefore, this paper presents a novel group-wise approach for the efficient detection of malware by parallelizing the classification using the power of GPGPU and shown that by using the Naive Bayes classifier the detection speed-up can be boosted up to 200x. The investigation also shows that the classification time increases significantly with the number of features.
@article{arxiv.1905.13746,
title = {An Efficient Detection of Malware by Naive Bayes Classifier Using GPGPU},
author = {Sanjay K. Sahay and Mayank Chaudhari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13746},
year = {2019}
}