An Efficient Detection of Malware by Naive Bayes Classifier Using GPGPU

Abstract

Due to continuous increase in the number of malware (according to AV-Test institute total $${\sim } 8 \times 10^8$$ malware are already known, and every day they register $${\sim } 2.5 \times 10^4$$ malware) and files in the computational devices, it is very important to design a system which not only effectively but can also efficiently detect the new or previously unseen malware to prevent/minimize the damages. Therefore, this paper presents a novel group-wise approach for the efficient detection of malware by parallelizing the classification using the power of GPGPU and shown that by using the Naive Bayes classifier, the detection speedup can be boosted up to 200x. The investigation also shows that the classification time increases significantly with the number of features.