Rammouz, Veronica
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
The internet has made room for lots of unwanted activity to propagate through computers. In response, many methods were established to detect a certain computer executable as malicious. However, there were still loopholes for hackers within traditional systems. Some methods use machine learning others use deep learning. There are some drawbacks to each method, such as reverse analysis and restricted simulation on different execution paths, as well as long execution time. Some methods cannot generalize well and cannot scale to large amounts of data. Moreover, anti-viruses, using signature-based ...