Metamorphic malware detection using structural features and nonnegative matrix factorization with hidden markov model

• Main Authors: Ling, Yeong Tyng, Mohd Sani, Nor Fazlida, Abdullah, Mohd Taufik, Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Cham 2021
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94169/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-021-00404-z

Metamorphic malware modifies its code structure using a morphing engine to evade traditional signature-based detection. Previous research has shown the use of opcode instructions as feature representation with Hidden Markov Model in the context of metamorphic malware detection. However, it would be...