Embedding and Siamese deep neural network-based malware detection in Internet of Things

Abstract

Purpose

A proper understanding of malware characteristics is necessary to protect massive data generated because of the advances in Internet of Things (IoT), big data and the cloud. Because of the encryption techniques used by the attackers, network security experts struggle to develop an efficient malware detection technique. Though few machine learning-based techniques are used by researchers for malware detection, large amounts of data must be processed and detection accuracy needs to be improved for efficient malware detection. Deep learning-based methods have gained significant momentum in recent years for the accurate detection of malware. The purpose of this paper is to create an efficient malware detection system for the IoT using Siamese deep neural networks.

Design/methodology/approach

In this work, a novel Siamese deep neural network system with an embedding vector is proposed. Siamese systems have generated significant interest because of their capacity to pick up a significant portion of the input. The proposed method is efficient in malware detection in the IoT because it learns from a few records to improve forecasts. The goal is to determine the evolution of malware similarity in emerging domains of technology.

Findings

The cloud platform is used to perform experiments on the Malimg data set. ResNet50 was pretrained as a component of the subsystem that established embedding. Each system reviews a set of input documents to determine whether they belong to the same family. The results of the experiments show that the proposed method outperforms existing techniques in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

Originality/value

The proposed work generates an embedding for each input. Each system examined a collection of data files to determine whether they belonged to the same family. Cosine proximity is also used to estimate the vector similarity in a high-dimensional area.

Citation

Lakshmi, T.S., Govindarajan, M. and Srinivasulu, A. (2022), "Embedding and Siamese deep neural network-based malware detection in Internet of Things", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-06-2022-0236