N-grams-based file signatures for malware detection

ICEIS 2009 - 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings

Volumn AIDSS, Issue , 2009, Pages 317-320

  Santos, Igor ^a   Penya, Yoseba K ^a   Devesa, Jaime ^a   Bringas, Pablo G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer viruses; Data mining; Machine learning; Malware detection; Security

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARES; FALSE POSITIVE; MALICIOUS CODES; MALWARE DETECTION; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SECURITY; SECURITY THREATS; SIGNATURE BASED DETECTIONS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 74549138307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5220/0001863603170320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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