Nonnegative matrix factorization and metamorphic malware detection

• Main Authors: Ling, Yeong Tyng, Nor Fazlida, Mohd Sani, Mohd Taufik, Abdullah, Nor Asilah Wati, Abdul Hamid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31790/3/Nonnegative.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31790/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-019-00331-0
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Metamorphic malware change their internal code structure by adopting code obfuscation technique while maintaining their malicious functionality during each infection. This causes change of their signature pattern across each infection and makes signature based detection particularly difficult. In th...