Malware analysis method using visualization of binary files

Abstract

Malware authors have been generating and disseminating malware variants through various ways, such as reusing modules or using automated malware generation tools. With the help of the malware generation techniques, the number of malware keeps increasing every year. Therefore, new malware analysis techniques are needed to reduce malware analysis overheads. Recently several malware visualization methods were proposed to help malware analysts. In this paper, we proposed a novel method to visually analyze malware by transforming malware binary information into image matrices. Our experimental results show that the image matrices of malware can effectively classify malware families.