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What is the primary purpose of malware classification?
What is the primary purpose of malware classification?
- To provide information about the source and motives of an adversary (correct)
- To eliminate the malware from a system
- To create a database of all known malware
- To detect malware in a system
What is the difference between malware detection and malware classification?
What is the difference between malware detection and malware classification?
- Both detection and classification involve the same process
- Detection involves detecting malware, while classification assigns a class of malware to a given sample (correct)
- Detection and classification are two terms used interchangeably
- Classification involves detecting malware, while detection assigns a class of malware to a given sample
What was the initial number of features collected for malware classification?
What was the initial number of features collected for malware classification?
- 9.53%
- 50 million (correct)
- 50 thousand
- 179,000
What was the dimensionality of the dataset after feature selection and random projections?
What was the dimensionality of the dataset after feature selection and random projections?
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What was the best performing DNN architecture for malware classification?
What was the best performing DNN architecture for malware classification?
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What was the error rate on malware type for the best performing DNN architecture?
What was the error rate on malware type for the best performing DNN architecture?
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What is the purpose of DGAs in malware tools?
What is the purpose of DGAs in malware tools?
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Why is it difficult to block malicious domains using standard techniques such as blacklisting or sink-holing?
Why is it difficult to block malicious domains using standard techniques such as blacklisting or sink-holing?
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What are some of the cyber-attacks that DGAs are used for?
What are some of the cyber-attacks that DGAs are used for?
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What was the error rate on malware type for a DNN with nine layers?
What was the error rate on malware type for a DNN with nine layers?
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