Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: The paper describes how to detect malicious executable files based on static analysis of their binary content. The stages of pre-processing and cleaning data extracted from different areas of executable files are analyzed. Methods of encoding categorical attributes of executable files are considered, as are ways to reduce the feature field dimension and select characteristic features in order to effectively represent samples of binary executable files for further training classifiers. An ensemble training approach was applied in order to aggregate forecasts from each classifier, and an ensemble of classifiers of various feature groups of executable file attributes was created in order to subsequently develop a system for detecting malicious files in an uninsulated environment.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Author: Prudkovskiy, Nikolay
Language: English
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3043346182