DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MALWARE DETECTING MODEL USING MACHINE LEARNING

Student: Abdurrahman Muhammad
Supervisor: Mr Nura Anka
HOD: Dr Mu'amun Moh'd
Department of Computer Science
Science
Federal Polytechnic, Kaura/Namoda, Zamfara State

Abstract

In the era of digitalization, a major issue that must be addressed is cyber security. The use of technologies and detection in various parameters. Advancements has endangered the user’s information and data. Here, the main focus is on malware that should be detected in the increase in cyber-attacks, malware detection has become critical for individuals and organizations to safeguard their digital the early stages. Malware detection identifies and mitigates malicious software threats to computer systems and networks. With assets and sensitive information. In this paper, here discussion of the current state of malware detection, including challenges detection’, ‘behaviour based detection’, and ‘machine learning based detection’. At last, it quantifies the ml based method for and advancements in the field. It also covers the most commonly used malware detection techniques, such as ‘signature-based Keywords-Malware Detection, Cybersecurity, Machcurity, Mach Malware constitute a major threat to Network Infrastructure which are vulnerable to several devastating Malware attackssuch as Virus and Ransomware. Traditional Antimalware software techniques including Feature Selection techniques as well as Grid Search hyperparameter optimization This provides limited efficiency against Malware removal due to evolvingevasion techniques capabilities of Malwaresuch as polymorphism.Anti malware only removes Malware they have signatures for and are research made use of Machine Learning to detect and classify Malware by employing Machine Learning Principal Component Analysis was combined with Chi Squareto cure the curse of dimensionality.

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