• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
    Monthly Online Journal (eISSN: 1976-7277)

A Secure Encryption-Based Malware Detection System


Abstract

Malware detections continue to be a challenging task as attackers may be aware of the rules used in malware detection mechanisms and constantly generate new breeds of malware to evade the current malware detection mechanisms. Consequently, novel and innovated malware detection techniques need to be investigated to deal with this circumstance. In this paper, we propose a new secure malware detection system in which API call fragments are used to recognize potential malware instances, and these API call fragments together with the homomorphic encryption technique are used to construct a privacy-preserving Naive Bayes classifier (PP-NBC). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PP-NBC can successfully classify instances of malware with a hit-rate as high as 94.93%.


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Cite this article

[IEEE Style]
Z. Lin, F. Xiao, Y. Sun, Y. Ma, C. Xing, J. Huang, "A Secure Encryption-Based Malware Detection System," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1799-1818, 2018. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2018.04.022.

[ACM Style]
Zhaowen Lin, Fei Xiao, Yi Sun, Yan Ma, Cong-Cong Xing, and Jun Huang. 2018. A Secure Encryption-Based Malware Detection System. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 12, 4, (2018), 1799-1818. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2018.04.022.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:21741, title="A Secure Encryption-Based Malware Detection System", author="Zhaowen Lin and Fei Xiao and Yi Sun and Yan Ma and Cong-Cong Xing and Jun Huang and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2018.04.022}, volume={12}, number={4}, year="2018", month={April}, pages={1799-1818}}