A Review on Malware Detection Methods

Abstract

With the expeditious improvement of the internet and information technology, malicious codes and attacks pose a critical threat to internet and computer security. These attacks and malicious codes are increased exponentially and caused huge amounts of financial damage. The potential to recognize several malicious code variants and threats is crucial for preservation across unauthorized access to computer data, information, data theft, security breaches, etc. Recent methods for identifying malicious codes and threats have indicated less precision and deficient speeds. This paper aims to conduct a brief and systematic survey on the malware detection methods based on the soft computing model. This work is expected to help researchers to understand the malware detection technology and the direction of its research development.