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Malicious software is generated with more and more modified features of which the methods to detect malicious software use characteristics. Automatic classification of malicious software is efficient because it does not need to store all characteristic. In this paper, we propose a transferred generative adversarial network (tGAN) for automatic classification and detection of the zero-day attack. Since the GAN is unstable in training process, often resulting in generator that produces nonsensical outputs, a method to pre-train GAN with autoencoder structure is proposed. We analyze the detector, and the performance of the detector is visualized by observing the clustering pattern of malicious software using t-SNE algorithm. The proposed model gets the best performance compared with the conventional machine learning algorithms.
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This work was supported by Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Agency for Defense Development under the contract (UD160066BD).
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Kim, JY., Bu, SJ., Cho, SB. (2017). Malware Detection Using Deep Transferred Generative Adversarial Networks. In: Liu, D., Xie, S., Li, Y., Zhao, D., El-Alfy, ES. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70087-8_58
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