Industry 4.0
Vol. 7 (2022), Issue 6, pg(s) 248-250

SOCIETY & ”INDUSTRY 4.0”

On the Possibility of Interpretable Rules Generation for the Classification of Malware Samples

  • 1 Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Abstract

Nowadays, sophisticated models and approaches are used in the field of Malware classification or detection. Modern trends propose the use of black-box kind of models like Deep learning or Neural networks, thus, often, the results are not human-interpretable. In this paper we focus on the well-known EMBER dataset with the focus on interpretable models like Decision trees and Decision tables. We were able to generate interpretable classification trees, which can serve in conjunction with the concept-learning or as a support for ontology creation.

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