Classification of Malware Using VGGNet-19 Model – An Evaluation for General Understanding

Authors

  • Humza Rana Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan - Pakistan

Keywords:

Malware Classification, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The malware program becomes a disturbance to the user as it grabs the most important files and data of the user. The number of devices attached to the internet is increasing at a high speed which raises the opportunity for the attackers to steal or destroy the user data. Some malicious attackers demand money from the user after hacking the user's most important information. The traditional methods for malware classification including static and dynamic contain some limitations as they consume time in feature extraction. The malware classification needs to be identified in the light of artificial intelligence. The machine learning model is also used by the researcher for classification but now gets old and underperforms in the large dataset to overcome the large dataset issue deep learning algorithms are required which perform efficiently in large datasets. Difference researchers proposed deep learning algorithms for malware detection and achieving the best performance in detection but limited to malware classes. In this paper, the VGGNet-19 model which is also a deep learning model proposed for malware classification is in multiclass. In the VGGNet-19 model, the term VGG stands for Visual Geometric Group which can handle up to 19 layers for its deep network feature. The Malimg dataset contains 9339 samples divided into 25 malware classes. The proposed model is trained on this multiclass malware image dataset, achieving 0.998% performance in training, 0.990% in testing, and 0.990% in overall classification accuracy. The confusion matrix confirms model excellence performance across all classes.

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Published

2024-12-15

How to Cite

Humza Rana. (2024). Classification of Malware Using VGGNet-19 Model – An Evaluation for General Understanding . Wah Academia Journal of Social Sciences, 3(2), 165–176. Retrieved from https://wahacademia.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/83