Malware Classification Using Few-Shot Learning Approach

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Malware detection, targeting the microarchitecture of processors, has recently come to light as a potentially effective way to improve computer system security. Hardware Performance Counter data are used by machine learning algorithms in security mechanisms, such as hardware-based malware detection, to categorize and detect malware. It is crucial to determine whether or not a file contains malware. Many issues have been brought about by the rise in malware, and businesses are losing vital data and dealing with other issues. The second thing to keep in mind is that malware can quickly cause a lot of damage to a system by slowing it down and encrypting a large amount of data on a personal computer. This study provides extensive details on a flexible framework related to machine learning and deep learning techniques using few-shot learning. Malware detection is possible using DT, RF, LR, SVM, and FSL techniques. The logic is that these algorithms make it simple to differentiate between files that are malware-free and those that are not. This indicates that their goal is to reduce the number of false positives in the data. For this, we use two different datasets from an online platform. In this research work, we mainly focus on few-shot learning techniques by using two different datasets. The proposed model has an 97% accuracy rate, which is much greater than that of other techniques.