Redundancy coefficient gradual up-weighting-based mutual information feature selection technique for crypto-ransomware early detection

• Main Authors: Al-rimy, Bander Ali Saleh, Maarof, Mohd. Aizaini, Alazab, Mamoun, Mohd. Shaid, Syed Zainudeen, A. Ghaleb, Fuad, Almalawi, Abdulmohsen, Ali, Abdullah Marish, Al-Hadhrami, Tawfik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94618/1/MohdAizainiMaarof2021_RedundancyCoefficientGradualUpweightingbasedMutual.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94618/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2020.10.002

Crypto-ransomware is a type of malware whose effect is irreversible even after detection and removal. Thus, early detection is crucial to protect user files from being encrypted and held to ransom. Several studies have proposed early detection solutions based on the data acquired during the pre-encr...