An investigation of malware type classification

5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 398-406

  Dube, Thomas ^a   Raines, Richard ^a   Peterson, Bert ^a   Bauer, Kenneth ^a   Rogers, Steven ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Machine learning; Malware; Network defense

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CRIME; CYBERSECURITY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RECOVERY; SALES; SCANNING;

ANTI VIRUS; CYBER-CRIMES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MALWARE ATTACKS; MALWARES; NETWORK DEFENSE; RECOVERY PROCEDURE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TYPE CLASSIFICATIONS;

MALWARE;

EID: 84893067845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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