This Malware Looks Familiar: Laymen Identify Malware Run-time Similarity with Chernoff faces and Stick Figures

VanHoudnos, Nathan; Casey, William; French, David; Lindauer, Brian; Kanal, Eliezer; Wright, Evan; Woods, Bronwyn; Moon, Seungwhan; Jansen, Peter; Carbonell, Jamie

This Malware Looks Familiar: Laymen Identify Malware Run-time Similarity with Chernoff faces and Stick Figures

VanHoudnos, Nathan and Casey, William and French, David and Lindauer, Brian and Kanal, Eliezer and Wright, Evan and Woods, Bronwyn and Moon, Seungwhan and Jansen, Peter and Carbonell, Jamie (2017) This Malware Looks Familiar: Laymen Identify Malware Run-time Similarity with Chernoff faces and Stick Figures. In: 10th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS).

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Abstract

Classifying unknown malicious binaries into malware families provides valuable information to security professionals. The reverse engineering necessary to classify a given binary into a known family, however, is expensive because the time of the human expert is expensive. In this work, we give a pro

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Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2026 11:03
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2026 17:09
URI:	http://eprints.eai.eu/id/eprint/16674

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