Malware-on-the-Brain: Illuminating Malware Byte Codes with Images for Malware Classification. (arXiv:2108.04314v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

Malware is a piece of software that was written with the intent of doing harm
to data, devices, or people. Since a number of new malware variants can be
generated by reusing codes, malware attacks can be easily launched and thus
become common in recent years, incurring huge losses in businesses,
governments, financial institutes, health providers, etc. To defeat these
attacks, malware classification is employed, which plays an essential role in
anti-virus products. However, existing works that employ either static …

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