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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Feature Selection and Performance Improvement of Malware Detection System using Cuckoo Search Optimization and Rough Sets

Author 1: Ravi Kiran Varma P
Author 2: PLN Raju
Author 3: K V Subba Raju
Author 4: Akhila Kalidindi

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110587

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 5, 2020.

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Abstract: The proliferation of malware is a severe threat to host and network-based systems. Design and evaluation of efficient malware detection methods is the need of the hour. Windows Portable Executable (PE) files are a primary source of windows based malware. Static malware detection involves an analysis of several PE header file features and can be done with the help of machine learning tools. In the design of efficient machine learning models for malware detection, feature reduction plays a crucial role. Rough set dependency degree is a proven tool for feature reduction. However, quick reduct using rough sets is an NP-hard problem. This paper proposes a hybrid Rough Set Feature Selection using Cuckoo Search Optimization, RSFSCSO, in finding the best collection of reduced features for malware detection. Random forest classifier is used to evaluate the proposed algorithm; the analysis of results proves that the proposed method is highly efficient.

Keywords: Cuckoo search; rough sets; feature optimization; malware analysis; malware detection; feature reduction; clamp dataset

Ravi Kiran Varma P, PLN Raju, K V Subba Raju and Akhila Kalidindi, “Feature Selection and Performance Improvement of Malware Detection System using Cuckoo Search Optimization and Rough Sets” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(5), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110587

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title = {Feature Selection and Performance Improvement of Malware Detection System using Cuckoo Search Optimization and Rough Sets},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110587},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110587},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {5},
author = {Ravi Kiran Varma P and PLN Raju and K V Subba Raju and Akhila Kalidindi}
}


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