Research Article

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

Table 4

Measures of social network analysis for malware analysis.

ScopeCategoryMeasure name

Node levelCentralityAverage in-degree centrality
Average weighted in-degree centrality

Network levelDegree distributionPortion of calls with in-degree of 1
Portion of calls with out-degree of 1
Portion of calls with weighted in-degree of 1
Portion of calls with weighted out-degree of 1
CohesionAverage distance