Volume 10, Number 06, June 2020

FCNNMD: A Novel Fusion Method based on Convolutional Neural Network for Malware Detection

  Authors

Jing Zhang¹ and Yu Wen², ¹University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and ²Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  Abstract

Malicious software are rampant and do great harm. The present mainstream malware detection technology has many disadvantages, such as high labour cost, large system overhead, and inability to detect new malware. We propose a novel fusion method based on convolutional neural network for malware detection (FCNNMD). For the sample imbalance problem faced by the convolutional neural network malware detection method, the non-malicious sample is added by means of generating anti-network generation, etc., to achieve the same number as the malicious sample. For the problem of low accuracy of single model detection, high false positive rate and false negative rate, a malware detection model is constructed by means of model fusion. The model combines four classical convolutional neural network structures. Experiments show that this method can effectively improve the accuracy and robustness of the model. Our method does not need actual running software and has high detection efficiency.

  Keywords

Malware Detection, Grayscale Image, Convolutional Neural Networks, Model integration

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