Advances In Malware Detection- An Overview

TL;DR

This paper reviews various malware detection techniques, highlighting their strengths and limitations, and discusses datasets and tools to improve early detection of advanced and zero-day malware threats.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive literature review of malware detection methods, comparing their effectiveness and discussing future research directions.

Findings

Behavior-based detection is more effective than static analysis for unknown malware.

Current methods still struggle to detect all zero-day malware.

Datasets and tools are crucial for advancing malware detection research.

Abstract

Malware has become a widely used means in cyber attacks in recent decades because of various new obfuscation techniques used by malwares. In order to protect the systems, data and information, detection of malware is needed as early as possible. There are various studies on malware detection techniques that have been done but there is no method which can detect the malware completely and make malware detection problematic. Static Malware analysis is very effective for known malwares but it does not work for zero day malware which leads to the need of dynamic malware detection and the behaviour based malware detection is comparatively good among all detection techniques like signature based, deep learning based, mobile/IOT and cloud based detection but still it is not able to detect all zero day malware which shows the malware detection is very challenging task and need more techniques for malware detection. This paper describes a literature review of various methods of malware detection. A short description of each method is provided and discusses various studies already done in the advanced malware detection field and their comparison based on the detection method used, accuracy and other parameters. Apart from this we will discuss various malware detection tools, dataset and their sources which can be used in further study. This paper gives you the detailed knowledge of advanced malwares, its detection methods, how you can protect your devices and data from malware attacks and it gives the comparison of different studies on malware detection.