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Improving the detection accuracy of unknown malware by partitioning the executables in groups

Cryptography and Security 2018-09-18 v1

Abstract

Detection of unknown malware with high accuracy is always a challenging task. Therefore, in this paper, we study the classification of unknown malware by two methods. In the first/regular method, similar to other authors [17][16][20] approaches we select the features by taking all dataset in one group and in the second method, we select the features by partitioning the dataset in the range of file 5 KB size. We find that the second method to detect the malware with ~8.7% more accurate than the first/regular method.

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@article{arxiv.1606.06909,
  title  = {Improving the detection accuracy of unknown malware by partitioning the executables in groups},
  author = {Ashu Sharma and Sanjay K. Sahay and Abhishek Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.06909},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Proceedings 9th ICACCT, 2015, 8 Pages, 7 Figures

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