Unknown malcode detection via text categorization and the imbalance problem

IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008, IEEE ISI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 156-161

  Moskovitch, Robert ^a   Stopel, Dima ^a   Feher, Clint ^a   Nissim, Nir ^a   Elovici, Yuval ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification algorithms; Malicious code detection

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; ONLINE SEARCHING; TESTING; TEXT PROCESSING; VIDEO STREAMING;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; FILE CONTENTS; IMBALANCE PROBLEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MALCODE; MALICIOUS CODE; MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION; MALICIOUS CODES; SECURITY INFORMATICS; TEST SETS; TEXT CATEGORIZATION; TRAINING SETS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 51849107341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2008.4565046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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