Deep learning based malware detection using hardware performance counters

• Main Author: Quah, Yu Kiat
• Other Authors: Zhang Tianwei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Performance of systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148121
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Studies in the past have investigated the feasibility of using HPCs (Hardware Performance Counters) as a metric to differentiate between benignware and malware. A major study titled “Hardware Performance Counters Can Detect Malware: Myth or Fact?” in 2018 concluded by using statistical models like R...