Abstract
In this paper, we propose a deep learning framework for malware classification. There was a big boom within the quantity of malware in current years which poses an extreme safety chance to financial establishments, agencies, and people. In order to fight the proliferation of malware, new techniques are essential to quickly perceive and classify malware samples so that their behavior can be analyzed. Machine learning methods are becoming famous for classifying malware, but, the maximum of the modern gadget gaining knowledge of strategies for malware classification use machine learning algorithms (e.g., SVM). Currently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), a deep getting to know approach, have proven advanced performance in comparison to traditional getting to know algorithms, particularly in duties which include image classification. Influenced by way of this achievement, we recommend a CNN-based architecture to classify malware samples. We convert malware binaries to a grayscale image, and at the end, we train a CNN network for classification. Experiments on hard malware classification datasets, Malimg, and Microsoft malware, reveal that our technique achieves higher than the modern-day overall performance.