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Binary and Multi-Class Malware Threads Classification

dc.contributor.authorAhmed I.T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJamil N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorDin M.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHammad B.T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorid57193324906en_US
dc.contributor.authorid36682671900en_US
dc.contributor.authorid58032385600en_US
dc.contributor.authorid57193327622en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-29T09:35:57Z
dc.date.available2023-05-29T09:35:57Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe security of a computer system can be harmed by specific applications, such as malware. Malware comprises unwanted, dangerous enemies that aim to compromise the security and generate significant loss. Consequently, Malware Detection (MD) and Malware Classification (MC) has emerged as a key issue for the cybersecurity society. MD only involves locating malware without determining what kind of malware it is, but MC comprises assigning a class of malware to a particular sample. Recently, a few techniques for analyzing malware quickly have been put out. However, there remain numerous difficulties, such as the low classification accuracy of samples from related malware families, the computational complexity, and consumption of resources. These difficulties make detecting and classifying malware very challenging. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed an efficient malware detection and classification technique that combines Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA) and Gaussian Discriminant Analysis (GDA). The outcomes of the experiment demonstrate that the SFTA-GDA produces a high classification rate. There are three main steps involved in our malware analysis, namely: (i) malware conversion; (ii) feature extraction; and (iii) classification. We initially convert the RGB malware images into grayscale malware images for effective malware analysis. The SFTA and Gabor features are then extracted from gray-scale images in the feature extraction step. Finally, the classification is carried out by GDA and Naive Bayes (NB). The proposed method is evaluated on a common MaleVis dataset. The proposed SFTA-GDA is the effective choice since it produces the highest accuracy rate across all families of the MaleVis Database. Experimental findings indicate that the accuracy rate was 98%, which is higher than the overall accuracy from the existing state-of-the-art methods. � 2022 by the authors.en_US
dc.description.natureFinalen_US
dc.identifier.ArtNo12528
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/app122412528
dc.identifier.issue24
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85144898308
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85144898308&doi=10.3390%2fapp122412528&partnerID=40&md5=29f95de0e0e7e0f519c143f9910b0ca5
dc.identifier.urihttps://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/26626
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAll Open Access, Gold
dc.sourceScopus
dc.sourcetitleApplied Sciences (Switzerland)
dc.titleBinary and Multi-Class Malware Threads Classificationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
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