scholarly journals Generative Adversarial Network for Global Image-Based Local Image to Improve Malware Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7585
Author(s):  
Sejun Jang ◽  
Shuyu Li ◽  
Yunsick Sung
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Malware Classification ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Malware Detection And Classification ◽  
Local Image

Malware detection and classification methods are being actively developed to protect personal information from hackers. Global images of malware (in a program that includes personal information) can be utilized to detect or classify it. This method is efficient, given that small changes in the program can be detected while maintaining the overall structure of the program. However, if any obfuscation approach that encrypts malware code is implemented, it becomes difficult to extract features such as opcodes and application programming interface functions. Given that malware detection and classification are performed differently depending on whether malware is obfuscated or not, methods that can simultaneously detect and classify general and obfuscated malware are required. This paper proposes a method that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) and global image-based local image to classify unobfuscated and obfuscated malware. Global and local images of unobfuscated malware are generated using pixel and local feature visualizers. The GAN is utilized to visualize local features and generate local images of obfuscated malware by learning global and local images of unobfuscated malware. The local image of unobfuscated malware is merged with the global image generated via the pixel visualizer. To merge the global and local images of unobfuscated and obfuscated malware, the pixels extracted from global and local images are stored in a two-dimensional array, and then merged images are generated. Finally, unobfuscated and obfuscated malware are classified using a convolutional neural network (CNN). The results of experiments conducted on the Microsoft Malware Classification Challenge (BIG 2015) dataset indicate that the proposed method has a malware classification accuracy of 99.65%, which is 2.18% higher than that of the malware classification approach based on only global images and local features.

scholarly journals Malware Classification with Improved Convolutional Neural Network Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Sumit S. Lad ◽  
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Amol C. Adamuthe
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Neural Network Model ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Gray Scale ◽  
Malware Classification

Malware is a threat to people in the cyber world. It steals personal information and harms computer systems. Various developers and information security specialists around the globe continuously work on strategies for detecting malware. From the last few years, machine learning has been investigated by many researchers for malware classification. The existing solutions require more computing resources and are not efficient for datasets with large numbers of samples. Using existing feature extractors for extracting features of images consumes more resources. This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network model with pre-processing and augmentation techniques for the classification of malware gray-scale images. An investigation is conducted on the Malimg dataset, which contains 9339 gray-scale images. The dataset created from binaries of malware belongs to 25 different families. To create a precise approach and considering the success of deep learning techniques for the classification of raising the volume of newly created malware, we proposed CNN and Hybrid CNN+SVM model. The CNN is used as an automatic feature extractor that uses less resource and time as compared to the existing methods. Proposed CNN model shows (98.03%) accuracy which is better than other existing CNN models namely VGG16 (96.96%), ResNet50 (97.11%) InceptionV3 (97.22%), Xception (97.56%). The execution time of the proposed CNN model is significantly reduced than other existing CNN models. The proposed CNN model is hybridized with a support vector machine. Instead of using Softmax as activation function, SVM performs the task of classifying the malware based on features extracted by the CNN model. The proposed fine-tuned model of CNN produces a well-selected features vector of 256 Neurons with the FC layer, which is input to SVM. Linear SVC kernel transforms the binary SVM classifier into multi-class SVM, which classifies the malware samples using the one-against-one method and delivers the accuracy of 99.59%.

scholarly journals Convolutional Neural Network Audio Classifier for Alarm Sound Detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 4554-4557
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Sound Recognition ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Differential Network ◽  
Sound Detection ◽  
Long Short Term Memory ◽  
Lstm Network

Neural Networks (ANN) has evolved through many stages in the last three decades with many researchers contributing in this challenging field. With the power of math complex problems can also be solved by ANNs. ANNs like Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Deep Neural network, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Ordinary Differential Network etc., are playing promising roles in many MNCs and IT industries for their predictions and accuracy. In this paper, Convolutional Neural Network is used for prediction of Beep sounds in high noise levels. Based on Supervised Learning, the research is developed the best CNN architecture for Beep sound recognition in noisy situations. The proposed method gives better results with an accuracy of 96%. The prototype is tested with few architectures for the training and test data out of which a two layer CNN classifier predictions were the best.

scholarly journals Automatic Target Recognition for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based on Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoran Shi ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Shuang Yang ◽  
Zijing Zhang ◽  
Tao Su
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Feature Characterization

Aiming at the problem of the difficulty of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image acquisition and poor feature characterization ability of low-resolution SAR image, this paper proposes a method of an automatic target recognition method for SAR images based on a super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). First, the threshold segmentation is utilized to eliminate the SAR image background clutter and speckle noise and accurately extract target area of interest. Second, the low-resolution SAR image is enhanced through SRGAN to improve the visual resolution and the feature characterization ability of target in the SAR image. Third, the automatic classification and recognition for SAR image is realized by using DCNN with good generalization performance. Finally, the open data set, moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition, is utilized and good recognition results are obtained under standard operating condition and extended operating conditions, which verify the effectiveness, robustness, and good generalization performance of the proposed method.

scholarly journals Design of Painting Art Style Rendering System Based on Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Xingyu Xie ◽  
Bin Lv
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Convolutional Network ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Network Generator ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Art Style

Convolutional Neural Network- (CNN-) based GAN models mainly suffer from problems such as data set limitation and rendering efficiency in the segmentation and rendering of painting art. In order to solve these problems, this paper uses the improved cycle generative adversarial network (CycleGAN) to render the current image style. This method replaces the deep residual network (ResNet) of the original network generator with a dense connected convolutional network (DenseNet) and uses the perceptual loss function for adversarial training. The painting art style rendering system built in this paper is based on perceptual adversarial network (PAN) for the improved CycleGAN that suppresses the limitation of the network model on paired samples. The proposed method also improves the quality of the image generated by the artistic style of painting and further improves the stability and speeds up the network convergence speed. Experiments were conducted on the painting art style rendering system based on the proposed model. Experimental results have shown that the image style rendering method based on the perceptual adversarial error to improve the CycleGAN + PAN model can achieve better results. The PSNR value of the generated image is increased by 6.27% on average, and the SSIM values are all increased by about 10%. Therefore, the improved CycleGAN + PAN image painting art style rendering method produces better painting art style images, which has strong application value.

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