Malware Detection and Analysis: Challenges and Research Opportunities
It addresses the problem of evolving malware threats for cybersecurity researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as it summarizes existing challenges without proposing novel solutions.
This article provides a theoretical overview of malware and anti-malware mechanisms, highlighting ongoing challenges such as unknown malware detection, without presenting new experimental results or concrete numbers.
Malwares are continuously growing in sophistication and numbers. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been achieved in anti-malware mechanisms. However, several pressing issues (e.g., unknown malware samples detection) still need to be addressed adequately. This article first presents a concise overview of malware along with anti-malware and then summarizes various research challenges. This is a theoretical and perspective article that is hoped to complement earlier articles and works.