Malware Data Science by Saxe, Joshua -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer BRIEF CONTENTS CONTENTS IN DETAIL FOREWORD by Anup Ghosh ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION

What Is Data Science? Why Data Science Matters for Security Applying Data Science to Malware Who Should Read This Book? About This Book How to Use the Sample Code and Data

1 BASIC STATIC MALWARE ANALYSIS

The Microsoft Windows Portable Executable Format Dissecting the PE Format Using pefile Examining Malware Images Examining Malware Strings Summary

2 BEYOND BASIC STATIC ANALYSIS: X86 DISASSEMBLY

Disassembly Methods Basics of x86 Assembly Language Disassembling ircbot.exe Using pefile and capstone Factors That Limit Static Analysis Summary

3 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

Why Use Dynamic Analysis? Dynamic Analysis for Malware Data Science Basic Tools for Dynamic Analysis Limitations of Basic Dynamic Analysis Summary

4 IDENTIFYING ATTACK CAMPAIGNS USING MALWARE NETWORKS

Nodes and Edges Bipartite Networks Visualizing Malware Networks Building Networks with NetworkX Adding Nodes and Edges Network Visualization with GraphViz Building Malware Networks Building a Shared Image Relationship Network Summary

5 SHARED CODE ANALYSIS

Preparing Samples for Comparison by Extracting Features Using the Jaccard Index to Quantify Similarity Using Similarity Matrices to Evaluate Malware Shared Code Estimation Methods Building a Similarity Graph Scaling Similarity Comparisons Building a Persistent Malware Similarity Search System Running the Similarity Search System Summary

6 UNDERSTANDING MACHINE LEARNING–BASED MALWARE DETECTORS

Steps for Building a Machine Learning–Based Detector Understanding Feature Spaces and Decision Boundaries What Makes Models Good or Bad: Overfitting and Underfitting Major Types of Machine Learning Algorithms Summary

7 EVALUATING MALWARE DETECTION SYSTEMS

Four Possible Detection Outcomes Considering Base Rates in Your Evaluation Summary

8 BUILDING MACHINE LEARNING DETECTORS

Terminology and Concepts Building a Toy Decision Tree–Based Detector Building Real-World Machine Learning Detectors with sklearn Building an Industrial-Strength Detector Evaluating Your Detector’s Performance Next Steps Summary

9 VISUALIZING MALWARE TRENDS

Why Visualizing Malware Data Is Important Understanding Our Malware Dataset Using matplotlib to Visualize Data Using seaborn to Visualize Data Summary

10 DEEP LEARNING BASICS

What Is Deep Learning? How Neural Networks Work Training Neural Networks Types of Neural Networks Summary

11 BUILDING A NEURAL NETWORK MALWARE DETECTOR WITH KERAS

Defining a Model’s Architecture Compiling the Model Training the Model Evaluating the Model Enhancing the Model Training Process with Callbacks Summary

12 BECOMING A DATA SCIENTIST

Paths to Becoming a Security Data Scientist A Day in the Life of a Security Data Scientist Traits of an Effective Security Data Scientist Where to Go from Here

APPENDIX AN OVERVIEW OF DATASETS AND TOOLS

Overview of Datasets Tool Implementation Guide

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