Malicious code clone detection technology based on deep learning

Malicious code clone detection has become an effective way to analyze malicious code homology and advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. In this paper, we collect samples of different APT organizations from public threat intelligence, and propose a deep learning based malicious code clone detection framework to detect the similarity between the functions in newly discovered malicious code and the malicious code in known APT organizational resources in order to efficiently analyze malware and quickly identify the source of APT attacks. We perform static analysis of malicious code through disassembly technology, use its key function call graph and disassembly code as the features of the malicious code, and then classify the malicious code in the APT organization library according to the neural network model. Through extensive evaluation and comparison with our previous models (MCrab), the improved model is better than the previous model, which can effectively detect and classify malicious code clones and obtain higher detection rate. © 2022, Editorial Board of JBUAA. All right reserved.