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A Novel Malware Detection Framework Based on Weighted Heterograph

  • Meihua Fan
  • , Shudong Li
  • , Weihong Han
  • , Xiaobo Wu
  • , Zhaoquan Gu
  • , Zhihong Tian
  • Guangzhou University

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Abstract

Malware has always been one of the major threats to cyberspace security. Also, it has long been concerned by researchers of antivirus technology. However, malware gradually tends to be diversified and updated quickly, it is a big challenge to security personnel both in terms of number and attack means. In this paper, we propose a malware detection framework based on fine-grained malware behavior graph, which applies graph neural network to malware detection tasks. We design a fine-grained malicious behavior graph to represent the association of malware and its behavior associated entities. Then, aiming at learning the semantic information carried in the malicious behavior graph, we propose a weighted heterogeneous graph neural network named MalSage. We conducted a model evaluation of the proposed method on a malware dataset from VirusTotal. The results show that the proposed framework is more accurate than other algorithms in malware classification task.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Cyberspace Innovation of Advanced Technologies, CIAT 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages39-43
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450387828
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 International Conference on Cyberspace Innovation of Advanced Technologies, CIAT 2020 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 4 Dec 20206 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference2020 International Conference on Cyberspace Innovation of Advanced Technologies, CIAT 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/12/206/12/20

Keywords

  • Graph neural network
  • Malware detection
  • Weighted heterogeneous graph

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