Overview of Malware Analysis and Detection

Identify a malicious data in a several types of files is a challenging task. Malware is a computer virus this is also a name given to a group of malicious data like umbrella to all types of malicious data like virus, worm, Trojan and so on. Several methods have been devised to smooth the progress of malware analysis and one of them is through visualization techniques. The visualization technique is used to visualize the features of malware or variants in a gray scale image of malware. The malware is visualized as an image with the concepts of image processing techniques it will identify the malware. The malware behaviors are identified in one of them such as encrypted malware, polymorphic malware, metamorphic malware, and obfuscated which have the ability to change their code as they propagate. In this paper different types of malware are discusses briefly with their categorization of malware families. The different techniques are used to identify and classify malware. Which is motivated especially on behaviors of malware samples which are similar in texture and some extent through this we can classify the malware data. This paper provides an overview of existing malware detection techniques with the different types of malware family descriptions.