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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131112
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Ransomware Detection using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches

Author 1: Ramadhan A. M. Alsaidi
Author 2: Wael M.S. Yafooz
Author 3: Hashem Alolofi
Author 4: Ghilan Al-Madhagy Taufiq-Hail
Author 5: Abdel-Hamid M. Emara
Author 6: Ahmed Abdel-Wahab

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 11, 2022.

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Abstract: Due to the advancement and easy accessibility to computer and internet technology, network security has become vulnerable to hacker threats. Ransomware is a frequently used malware in cyber-attacks to trick the victim users to expose sensitive and private information to the attackers. Consequently, victims may not be able to access their data any longer until they pay a ransom for stolen files or data. Different methods have been introduced to overcome these issues. It is evident through an extensive literature review that some lexical features are not always sufficient to detect categories of malicious URLs. This paper proposes a model to detect Ransomware using machine and deep learning approaches. This model was introduced as a novel feature for classification using the idea that starts with “https://www.” This feature was not considered in the earlier papers on malicious URLs identification. In addition, this paper introduced a novel dataset that consists of 405,836 records. Two main experiments were carried out utilizing malicious URL features to defend Ransomware using the proposed dataset. Moreover, to enhance and optimize the experimental accuracy, various hyper-parameters were tested on the same dataset to define the optimal factors of every method. According to the comparative and experimental results of the applied classification techniques, the proposed model achieved the best performance at 99.8% accuracy rate for detecting malicious URLs using machine and deep learning.

Keywords: Machine learning; ransomware; URL classification; malicious URLs; deep learning

Ramadhan A. M. Alsaidi, Wael M.S. Yafooz, Hashem Alolofi, Ghilan Al-Madhagy Taufiq-Hail, Abdel-Hamid M. Emara and Ahmed Abdel-Wahab, “Ransomware Detection using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(11), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131112

@article{Alsaidi2022,
title = {Ransomware Detection using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131112},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0131112},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {11},
author = {Ramadhan A. M. Alsaidi and Wael M.S. Yafooz and Hashem Alolofi and Ghilan Al-Madhagy Taufiq-Hail and Abdel-Hamid M. Emara and Ahmed Abdel-Wahab}
}



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.

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