Journal on Communications ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (11): 44-53.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2018227

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Method of anti-confusion texture feature descriptor for malware images

Yashu LIU1,2,Zhihai WANG1(),Hanbing YAN3,Yueran HOU4,Yukun LAI5   

  1. 1 School of Computer and Information Technology,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China
    2 School of Electrical and Information Engineering,Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture,Beijing 100044,China
    3 National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China,Beijing 100029,China
    4 Institute of Network Technology,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication,Beijing 100876,China
    5 School of Computer Science and Informatics,Cardiff University,Cardiff CF24 3AA,UK
  • Revised:2018-10-26 Online:2018-11-01 Published:2018-12-10
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1736218);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61672086);The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFB0803604)

Abstract:

It is a new method that uses image processing and machine learning algorithms to classify malware samples in malware visualization field.The texture feature description method has great influence on the result.To solve this problem,a new method was presented that joints global feature of GIST with local features of LBP or dense SIFT in order to construct combinative descriptors of malware gray-scale images.Using those descriptors,the malware classification performance was greatly improved in contrast to traditional method,especially for those samples have higher similarity in the different families,or those have lower similarity in the same family.A lot of experiments show that new method is much more effective and general than traditional method.On the confusing dataset,the accuracy rate of classification has been greatly improved.

Key words: malware visualization, image texture, feature descriptors, malware classification

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