Evolving malice scoring models for ransomware detection: An automated approach by utilising genetic programming and cooperative coevolution
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author = "Taran Cyriac John and Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi and
Harith Al-Sahaf and Ian Welch and Julian Jang-Jaccard",
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title = "Evolving malice scoring models for ransomware
detection: An automated approach by utilising genetic
programming and cooperative coevolution",
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journal = "Computer \& Security",
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volume = "129",
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pages = "103215",
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year = "2023",
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ISSN = "0167-4048",
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DOI = "doi:10.1016/j.cose.2023.103215",
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URL = "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404823001256",
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Ransomware
detection, Evolutionary computation, Symbolic
regression, Malice score, Cooperative coevolution",
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abstract = "Malice scoring is a technique that is present
throughout the literature to quantify a software
malignance through the assignment of a malice score.
However, the majority of existing malice scoring models
are synthesised using manually selected features and
weights, where a domain specialist is needed. Genetic
Programming and cooperative coevolution are used to
automatically evolve an ensemble of symbolic regression
functions to assign a malice score to an instance of
software data. Using a publicly available dataset, the
effectiveness of the proposed method is assessed and
compared to that of the state-of-the-art malice scoring
method. The experimental results show that the proposed
method has significantly outperformed the benchmark
method and exhibits the best-performing model that
produces an overall balanced accuracy of 95.80percent,
correctly classifying 94.21percent and 97.39percent of
unseen malicious and benign instances, respectively.
Furthermore, various aspects of the proposed method and
experimental results have been analysed in-depth to
provide insight into the evolutionary process and some
of the automatically evolved models",
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Genetic Programming entries for
Taran John
Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi
Harith Al-Sahaf
Ian Welch
Julian Jang-Jaccard
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