Advancing Malware Classification With an Evolving Clustering Method

Chia-Mei Chen and Shi-Hao Wang
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Chia-Mei Chen: Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Shi-Hao Wang: Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC), 2018, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: This article describes how honeypots and intrusion detection systems serve as major mechanisms for security administrators to collect a variety of sample viruses and malware for further analysis, classification, and system protection. However, increased variety and complexity of malware makes the analysis and classification challenging, especially when efficiency and timely response are two contradictory yet equally significant criteria in malware classification. Besides, similarity-based classifications exhibit insufficiency because the mutation and fuzzification of malware exacerbate classification difficulties. In order to improve malware classification speed and attend to mutation, this research proposes the ameliorated progressive classification that integrates static analysis and improved k-means algorithm. This proposed classification aims at assisting network administrators to have a malware classification preprocess and make efficient malware classifications upon the capture of new malware, thus enhancing the defense against malware.

Date: 2018
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