This paper discusses a detection mechanism for malicious code through statistical analysis
of opcode distributions. A total of 67 malware executables were sampled statically …

Malware is a major security threat confronting computer systems and networks and has
increased in scale and impact from the early days of ICT. Traditional protection mechanisms …

Ransomware is a significant global threat, with easy deployment due to the prevalent
ransomware-as-a-service model. Machine learning algorithms incorporating the use of …

N-gram analysis is an approach that investigates the structure of a program using bytes,
characters, or text strings. A key issue with N-gram analysis is feature selection amidst the …

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The research presented, investigates the optimal set of operational codes (opcodes) that
create a robust indicator of malicious software (malware) and also determines a program's …

Large-scale object-oriented (OO) software systems have recently been found to share global
network characteristics such as small world and scale free, which go beyond the scope of …

N-gram analysis is an approach that investigates the structure of a program using bytes,
characters or text strings. This research uses dynamic analysis to investigate malware …

N‐gram analysis is an approach that investigates the structure of a program using bytes,
characters or text strings. This research uses dynamic analysis to investigate malware …

Internet continues to evolve and touches every aspect of our daily life thus communications
through internet is becoming inevitable. Computer security has been hence becoming one …