• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 2022

Since 99% of PCs operating in the defense domain use the Windows operating system, detection and response of Window-based malware is very important to keep the defense cyberspace safe. This paper proposes a model capable of detecting malware in a Windows PE (Portable Executable) format. The detection model was designed with an emphasis on rapid update of the training model to efficiently cope with rapidly increasing malware rather than the detection accuracy. Therefore, in order to improve the training speed, the detection model was designed based on a Bidirectional LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) network that can detect malware with minimal sequence data without complicated pre-processing. The experiment was conducted using the EMBER2018 dataset, As a result of training the model with feature sets consisting of three type of sequence data(Byte-Entropy Histogram, Byte Histogram, and String Distribution), accuracy of 90.79% was achieved. Meanwhile, it was confirmed that the training time was shortened to 1/4 compared to the existing detection model, enabling rapid update of the detection model to respond to new types of malware on the surge.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.11-17
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• 2017

We proposed malware detection method, which use the feature vector that consist of Opcode(operation code) and Windows API Calls extracted from executable files. And, we implemented our feature vector and measured the performance of it by using Bernoulli Naïve Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbor classifier. In experimental result, when using the K-NN classifier with the proposed method, we obtain 95.21% malware detection accuracy. It was better than existing methods using only either Opcode or Windows API Calls.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.644-660
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• 2016

The real-time detection of malware remains an open issue, since most of the existing approaches for malware categorization focus on improving the accuracy rather than the detection time. Therefore, finding a proper balance between these two characteristics is very important, especially for such sensitive systems. In this paper, we present a fast portable executable (PE) malware detection system, which is based on the analysis of the set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) called by a program and some technical PE features (TPFs). We used an efficient feature selection method, which first selects the most relevant APIs and TPFs using the chi-square ($KHI^2$) measure, and then the Phi (${\varphi}$) coefficient was used to classify the features in different subsets, based on their relevance. We evaluated our method using different classifiers trained on different combinations of feature subsets. We obtained very satisfying results with more than 98% accuracy. Our system is adequate for real-time detection since it is able to categorize a file (Malware or Benign) in 0.09 seconds.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.211-216
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• 2018

In this paper, we studied the way that classify whether unknown PE file is malware or not. In the classification problem of malware detection domain, feature extraction and classifier are important. For that purpose, we studied what the feature is good for classifier and the which classifier is good for the selected feature. So, we try to find the good combination of feature and classifier for detecting malware. For it, we did experiments at two step. In step one, we compared the accuracy of features using Opcode only, Win. API only, the one with both. We founded that the feature, Opcode and Win. API, is better than others. In step two, we compared AUC value of classifiers, Bernoulli Naïve Bayes, K-nearest neighbor, Support Vector Machine and Decision Tree. We founded that Decision Tree is better than others.