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A Survey on Deep Learning Approaches for Malware Detection and Classification
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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applications, Mandsaur, India
Abstract
Malware is a serious threat in the cybersecurity area because of its dynamic nature, the variety of malware families, stealth, propagation and the capability of evading traditional security products. Therefore, proper malware detection and classification are crucial for detecting malicious software and for securing computer systems from unauthorized access and data stealing, and for disrupting systems. This study covers all the bases when it comes to deep learning approaches for malware detection and classification. It covers the principles, different forms of malware, how to detect deep learning malware, how to represent data, obtaining features, and applications. The traditional detection methods are described with their drawbacks, namely based on signature, behavioral and heuristic methods. The report also delves into the methodologies used by deep learning to classify malware, namely CNNs and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) networks. BiLSTM models excel at learning sequential features from code-or behavior-related data, whereas CNN-based representation learning approaches excel at learning spatial features from malware representations. Moreover, the various detection techniques (static, dynamic and hybrid) are discussed so that their role in malware analysis can be understood. The survey identifies the current challenges and gaps in research and emphasizes the need for strong, scalable and adaptive deep-learning models to combat new malware threats and enhance cybersecurity protection.
Keywords
Malware Detection,
Deep Learning,
Convolutional Neural Networks
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