Mal2d: 2d based deep learning model for malware detection using black and white binary image

Abstract

We propose an effective 2d image based end-to-end deep learning model for malware detection by introducing a black & white embedding to reserve bit information and adapting the convolution architecture. Experimental results show that our proposed scheme can achieve superior performance in both of training and testing data sets compared to well-known image recognition deep learning models (VGG and ResNet).