The Plymouth Student Scientist
Document Type
Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Article
Abstract
It is becoming increasingly harder to protect devices against security threats; as malware is steadily evolving defence mechanisms are struggling to persevere. This study introduces a concept intended at supporting security systems using Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and binary visualization. The system converts a file to its visual representation and sends the data for classification to SOINN. Tests were done to evaluate its performance and obtain an accuracy rate, which rounds the 80% figures at the moment, and false positive and negative rates. Bytes prevalence were also analysed with malware samples having a higher amount of null bytes compared with software samples, which may be a result of hiding malicious data or functionality. The patterns created by the samples were examined; malware samples had more clustering and created different patterns across the images whereas software samples presented mostly static and constant images although exceptions were noted in both categories.
Publication Date
2018-07-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
11
Issue
1
First Page
223
Last Page
237
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Embargo Period
2024-07-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14179
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Baptista, Irina
(2018)
"Binary visualisation for malware detection,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol11/iss1/7
