Large-scale malware classification using random projections and neural networks

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3422-3426

  Dahl, George E ^a   Stokes, Jack W ^b   Deng, Li ^b   Yu, Dong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Malware Classification; Neural Network; Random Projections

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPLEX ALGORITHMS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MALWARE CLASSIFICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL FEATURES; RANDOM PROJECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84890516914     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6638293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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