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Machine Learning for Detecting Malware in PE Files

Cryptography and Security 2022-12-29 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

The increasing number of sophisticated malware poses a major cybersecurity threat. Portable executable (PE) files are a common vector for such malware. In this work we review and evaluate machine learning-based PE malware detection techniques. Using a large benchmark dataset, we evaluate features of PE files using the most common machine learning techniques to detect malware.

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@article{arxiv.2212.13988,
  title  = {Machine Learning for Detecting Malware in PE Files},
  author = {Collin Connors and Dilip Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13988},
  year   = {2022}
}
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