Modified Decision Tree Technique for Ransomware Detection at Runtime through API Calls

Ransomware (RW) is a distinctive variety of malware that encrypts the files or locks the user’s system by keeping and taking their files hostage, which leads to huge financial losses to users. In this article, we propose a new model that extracts the novel features from the RW dataset and performs c...

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Main Authors: Faizan Ullah, Qaisar Javaid, Abdu Salam, Masood Ahmad, Nadeem Sarwar, Dilawar Shah, Muhammad Abrar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845833