Title :
Challenges in high accuracy of malware detection
Author :
Zabidi, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad ; Maarof, Mohd Aizaini ; Zainal, Anazida
Author_Institution :
Kulliyyah of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
Malware is a threat to the computer users regardless which operating systems and hardware platforms that they are using. Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system and the popularity also make it the most favourite platform to be attacked by the adversaries. Current detection for Windows relies on the signature based detection which is fairly fast although suffers undetected binaries. Here, we propose a method to increase the detection rate of malware by manipulating machine learning methods. Our focus is on the Microsoft Windows binaries.
Keywords :
invasive software; learning (artificial intelligence); operating systems (computers); Microsoft Windows; computer users; hardware platforms; machine learning methods; malware detection; operating systems; signature based detection; Accuracy; Computers; Entropy; Feature extraction; Malware; Software; feature selection; machine learning; malware;
Conference_Titel :
Control and System Graduate Research Colloquium (ICSGRC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Shah Alam, Selangor
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2035-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSGRC.2012.6287147