Experimental Evaluation of Description Logic Concept Learning Algorithms for Static Malware Detection

Peter Švec, Štefan Balogh, Martin Homola

2021

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for malware detection by using description logics learning algorithms. Over the last years, there has been a huge growth in the number of detected malware, leading to over a million unique samples observed per day. Although traditional machine learning approaches seem to be ideal for the malware detection task, we see very few of them deployed in real world solutions. Our proof-of-concept solution performs learning task from semantic input data and provides fully explainable results together with a higher robustness against adversarial attacks. Experimental results show that our solution is suitable for malware detection and we can achieve higher detection rates with additional improvements, such as enhancing the ontology with a larger amount of expert knowledge.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Švec P., Balogh Š. and Homola M. (2021). Experimental Evaluation of Description Logic Concept Learning Algorithms for Static Malware Detection.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE, ISBN 978-989-758-491-6, pages 792-799. DOI: 10.5220/0010429707920799

in Bibtex Style

@conference{forse21,
author={Peter Švec and Štefan Balogh and Martin Homola},
title={Experimental Evaluation of Description Logic Concept Learning Algorithms for Static Malware Detection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE,},
year={2021},
pages={792-799},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010429707920799},
isbn={978-989-758-491-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ForSE,
TI - Experimental Evaluation of Description Logic Concept Learning Algorithms for Static Malware Detection
SN - 978-989-758-491-6
AU - Švec P.
AU - Balogh Š.
AU - Homola M.
PY - 2021
SP - 792
EP - 799
DO - 10.5220/0010429707920799