Machine Learning Techniques for Malware Detection- a Research Review

Malware is a term that describes malicious software that is used to infect individual computers or an entire system. Malware is one of the most significant security risks that exists today on the Internet. Currently, the volume of malware is increasing at a quicker rate each year, posing a serious global security issue. Detecting malware with traditional signature-based methods is becoming more and more difficult because all modern malware applications have a lot of different layers to hide from detection or use side mechanisms to automatically upgrade to a newer version at short intervals to avoid detection by any antivirus software. In this study, we define malware and malware types in general, as well as a novel machine learning-based approach for detecting malware that is both effective and efficient, which we describe in detail in the following sections.