MalDeep: A Deep Learning Classification Framework against Malware Variants Based on Texture Visualization release_ujsd6njlvrapthhrv5ln4gcloe

by Yuntao Zhao, Chunyu Xu, Bo Bo, Yongxin Feng

Published in Security and Communication Networks by Hindawi Limited.

2019   Volume 2019, p1-11

Abstract

The increasing sophistication of malware variants such as encryption, polymorphism, and obfuscation calls for the new detection and classification technology. In this paper, MalDeep, a novel malware classification framework of deep learning based on texture visualization, is proposed against malicious variants. Through code mapping, texture partitioning, and texture extracting, we can study malware classification in a new feature space of image texture representation without decryption and disassembly. Furthermore, we built a malware classifier on convolutional neural network with two convolutional layers, two downsampling layers, and many full connection layers. We adopt the dataset, from Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge including 9 categories of malware families and 10868 variant samples, to train the model. The experiment results show that the established MalDeep has a higher accuracy rate for malware classification. In particular, for some backdoor families, the classification accuracy of the model reaches over 99%. Moreover, compared with other main antivirus software, MalDeep also outperforms others in the average accuracy for the variants from different families.
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