Malware Classification using Early Stage Behavioral Analysis

In the recent years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of malware captured and analyzed by the antivirus companies. However, much of these malware are variants of already known malware. Thus, it has become necessary to determine whether a malware belongs to a known family, or exhibits a new behavior hitherto unseen, and requires further analysis. Existing traditional approaches used by antivirus companies are based on...