Beyond Precision and Recall
Fabio Pagani, Matteo Dell’Amico, Davide Balzarotti · 2018
Fuzzy hashing algorithms provide a convenient way of summarizing in a compact form the content of files, and of looking for similarities between them. Because of this, they are widely used in the security and forensics communities to look for similarities between binary program files; one version of them, ssdeep, is the de facto standard to share information about known malware.