Research Article

Using a Subtractive Center Behavioral Model to Detect Malware

Table 10

Comparison of n-gram and the proposed model (400 malware and 300 benign).

ModelClassifierDR (%)FPR (%)Acc. (%)

4-gramJ4891.49.191
LMT97.72.497.4
RF85.118.885
SLR94.66.394.5
SMO929.692.1
KNN8716.287.3
BN
NB86.716.487

Proposed modelJ4899.50.799.4
LMT98.61.598.4
RF96.14.996
SLR98.5497.2
SMO97.42.497.3
KNN87.413.687.7
BN86.612.886.5
NB75.82075.5