MalwareDNA: Simultaneous Classification of Malware, Malware Families, and Novel Malware
This addresses cybersecurity threats by providing a more comprehensive ML solution, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing classification tasks.
The paper tackles the problem of slow adoption of machine learning for malware detection by addressing real-world challenges like novel malware detection and unifying malware/benign-ware and malware family classification into a single framework, showcasing preliminary capabilities for precise identification.
Malware is one of the most dangerous and costly cyber threats to national security and a crucial factor in modern cyber-space. However, the adoption of machine learning (ML) based solutions against malware threats has been relatively slow. Shortcomings in the existing ML approaches are likely contributing to this problem. The majority of current ML approaches ignore real-world challenges such as the detection of novel malware. In addition, proposed ML approaches are often designed either for malware/benign-ware classification or malware family classification. Here we introduce and showcase preliminary capabilities of a new method that can perform precise identification of novel malware families, while also unifying the capability for malware/benign-ware classification and malware family classification into a single framework.