Malware Classification using Transfer Learning through the GPT-2 model
Matheus Vanzan, Júlio César Duarte · 2023
Malware detection and classification pose critical challenges in the field of cybersecurity. In recent years, deep learning techniques have made remarkable progress in addressing the classification problem, outperforming traditional methods. Moreover, Natural Language Processing has proven successful in extending its applications beyond natural language texts across numerous semantic domains. This research work focuses on presenting a proposal that extends the Transfer Learning from OpenAI’s GPT-2 model to identify different malware families, without prior knowledge of their behaviors. The achieved results are highly promising, with an exceptional accuracy rate of 99.72%, close to state-of-the-art results reported for the problem.