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A Survey on Different Approaches for Malware Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques

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Sustainable Communication Networks and Application (ICSCN 2019)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies ((LNDECT,volume 39))

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Malwares are increasing in volume and variety, by posing a big threat to digital world and is one of the major alarms over the past few years for the security in industries. They can penetrate networks, steal confidential information from computers, bring down servers and can cripple infrastructures. Traditional Anti-Intrusion Detection/Intrusion prevention system and anti-virus softwares follow signature based methods which makes the detection of unknown or zero day malwares almost impossible. This issue can be solved by more sophisticated mechanisms in which, static and dynamic malware analysis can be used together with machine learning algorithms for classifying and detecting malware. Through this paper we present a survey on the different techniques for concealment and obfuscation used to make sophisticated malware as well as the different approaches used in malware detection and analysis.

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  1. Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, India

    S. Soja Rani & S. R. Reeja

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  1. Surya Engineering College, Kathirampatti, Tamil Nadu, India

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  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Da-Yeh University, Changhua, Taiwan

    Joy Chen

  3. Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA

    Yong Shi

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Soja Rani, S., Reeja, S.R. (2020). A Survey on Different Approaches for Malware Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques. In: Karrupusamy, P., Chen, J., Shi, Y. (eds) Sustainable Communication Networks and Application. ICSCN 2019. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34515-0_42

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