Fusing feature engineering and deep learning: A case study for malware classification

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Highlights:

• It presents an hybrid system for malware classification.

• It provides a detailed description of hand-crafted and deep features.

• It presents an effective mechanism to fuse hand-crafted and deep features.

• It successfully combines the benefits of feature engineering and deep learning.

• It performs an exhaustive evaluation of the features on the Microsoft benchmark.

摘要

•It presents an hybrid system for malware classification.•It provides a detailed description of hand-crafted and deep features.•It presents an effective mechanism to fuse hand-crafted and deep features.•It successfully combines the benefits of feature engineering and deep learning.•It performs an exhaustive evaluation of the features on the Microsoft benchmark.

论文关键词:Malware classification,Machine learning,Deep learning,Feature extraction,Feature fusion

论文评审过程:Received 21 April 2021, Revised 16 June 2022, Accepted 21 June 2022, Available online 26 June 2022, Version of Record 30 June 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117957