articleIEEE AccessJan 1, 2019GOLD OA

Robust Intelligent Malware Detection Using Deep Learning

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham · Charles Darwin University · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Security breaches due to attacks by malicious software (malware) continue to escalate posing a major security concern in this digital age. With many computer users, corporations, and governments affected due to an exponential growth in malware attacks, malware detection continues to be a hot research topic. Current malware detection solutions that adopt the static and dynamic analysis of malware signatures and behavior patterns are time consuming and have proven to be ineffective in identifying unknown malwares in real-time. Recent malwares use polymorphic, metamorphic, and other evasive techniques to change the malware behaviors quickly and to generate a large number of new malwares. Such new malwares are…

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  • Malware
  • Computer science
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Feature engineering
  • Feature (linguistics)
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  • Computer security
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