Optimized Deep Learning Technique for the Effective Detection of Windows PE Malware
摘要
This study examines the effects of several hyper-parameters, such as the number of epochs, batch size, number of layers and neurons, optimization technique, dropout rate, type of activation function, and learning rate, on deep learning-based static malware detection. To determine the ideal hyper-parameters for our deep learning model, we used the inception approach. Our research shows that convolutional neural networks with inception are more effective than other techniques, and that the correctness of the model is greatly influenced by the choice of hyper-parameter values. In particular, our method causes the neural network model’s accuracy for static malware detection on the Ember dataset to significantly increase (from 84.19% to 90.78%). These findings support the efficacy of our suggested methodology and have significant ramifications for the static malware detection community.