Research Article

Mal-Netminer: Malware Classification Approach Based on Social Network Analysis of System Call Graph

Table 3

The result of additional SNA measure explorations.

CategoryMeasure of SNAResult of exploration

CentralityAvg. normalized betweenness centralityCan classify only worm
Avg. normalized weighted in-degree centrality
Avg. normalized weighted out-degree centrality

CohesionNetwork diameter, -indexCannot classify all classes
Number of strong connected componentsCannot classify Trojan

normalized: normalized betweenness/in-degree/out-degree centrality is the betweenness/in-degree/out-degree centrality divided by the maximum betweenness/in-degree/out-degree centrality.
weighted: weighted degree centrality is the number of weighted links that a node has with other nodes in the network. The weighted links represent the amount of duplicated links between two nodes in the network.