System and method for detecting malicious executable code

Details System and method for detecting malicious executable code System and method for detecting malicious executable code

2005-08-12

2011-10-11

Zand, Kambiz (Department: 2434)

Information security

Monitoring or scanning of software or data including attack...

Intrusion detection

C713S188000

Reexamination Certificate

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08037535

ABSTRACT:
A system and method for detecting malicious executable software code. Benign and malicious executables are gathered; and each are encoded as a training example using n-grams of byte codes as features. After selecting the most relevant n-grams for prediction, a plurality of inductive methods, including naive Bayes, decision trees, support vector machines, and boosting, are evaluated.

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