SLAM: A Malware Detection Method Based on Sliding Local Attention Mechanism

Since the number of malware is increasing rapidly, it continuously poses a risk to the field of network security. Attention mechanism has made great progress in the field of natural language processing. At the same time, there are many research studies based on malicious code API, which is also like...

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Main Authors: Jun Chen, Shize Guo, Xin Ma, Haiying Li, Jinhong Guo, Ming Chen, Zhisong Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Security and Communication Networks
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/6724513
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Summary:Since the number of malware is increasing rapidly, it continuously poses a risk to the field of network security. Attention mechanism has made great progress in the field of natural language processing. At the same time, there are many research studies based on malicious code API, which is also like semantic information. It is a worthy study to apply attention mechanism to API semantics. In this paper, we firstly study the characters of the API execution sequence and classify them into 17 categories. Secondly, we propose a novel feature extraction method based on API execution sequence according to its semantics and structure information. Thirdly, based on the API data characteristics and attention mechanism features, we construct a detection framework SLAM based on local attention mechanism and sliding window method. Experiments show that our model achieves a better performance, which is a higher accuracy of 0.9723.
ISSN:1939-0114
1939-0122