Malware class recognition using image processing techniques

Abstract

Increasing suspicious instructions of various malware through a challenge to the malware analysts to identify and classify samples belongs to the malicious family. They have witnessed the very fast increase in both the number and complexity of malware set of instructions. Malware invest profoundly in technology and capability to reorganize the process of building and mutate existing malware set of instructions to avoid traditional protection. Classify malware variants by applying image processing techniques. The textures play an important role in many image processing applications. In this paper we proposed the Support Vector Machine (SVM) multi-class malware image classification challenge from an image processing perspective. The multi-resolution and wavelets are used to build effective texture feature vector using Gabor Wavelet, GIST and Discrete wavelet Transform and other features. The proposed algorithm experimented on Malimg Dataset of malware total 12,470 samples are used. In that 1610 samples are trained and 1710 samples are tested on 8 malware family which is randomly selected from the dataset. We compare this approach to existing malware classification approaches previously published research work. This is an efficient and more accurate malware detection algorithm using Wavelet Transform with machine learning classifiers techniques to detect malware samples more capably compare to existing work.