Malware is a threat to people in the cyber world. It steals personal information and harms computer systems. Various developers and information security specialists around the globe continuously work on strategies for detecting malware. The number of malicious files detected every year are counted by millions. From the last few years, machine learning has been investigated by many researchers for malware classification. The existing solutions require more computing resources and are not efficient for datasets with large numbers of samples. One of the main reasons for these high volumes of different files is the fact that, in order to evade detection, malware authors add mutation. This means that malicious files belonging to the same family, with the same malicious behavior, are constantly modified or obfuscated using several techniques, in such a way that they look like different files. In order to be effective in analyzing and classifying such large amounts of files, we need to be able to categorize them into groups and identify their respective families on the basis of their behavior. In this project, malicious software is visualized as images since its ability to capture minor changes while retaining the global structure helps to detect variations.
₹10000 (INR)
NON IEEE -2022