Ransomware is a kind of malware that forestalls or confines clients from getting to their framework, either by locking the
framework's screen or by locking the clients' records except if a payoff is paid. Due to the changing conduct of ransomware, conventional
type and detection techniques do not correctly stumble on new variants of ransomware. Our data set includes some of the most up-to-date
ransomware samples available, providing an assessment of the category accuracy of device studying algorithms on the present day evolving
repute of ransomware. Two primary parts of this work are identification of the behavioral attributes which can be used for choicest class
accuracy and type of ransomware the using machine learning classification algorithms. After classifying the ransomware editions, a
prevention mechanism is also completed to the cryptographic ransomware variants.
Published In:IJCSN Journal Volume 8, Issue 3
Date of Publication : June 2019
Pages : 285-293
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Jitti Annie Abraham :
received her B.Tech (CSE)
degree from University of Kerala in 2016. She is
currently pursuing her Masters in Computer Science
& Engineering from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological
University. Her research interests areas includes
machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber
forensics and cryptography.
Susan M George :
is working as Assistant Professor in
Computer Science and Engineering Department. She has
more than 3 years' experience in teaching. Her research
interests focus data mining, machine learning and
artificial intelligence. She has published several papers
on different areas.
Ransomware variations are expanding step by step. They
generally target client savvy and framework shrewd. The
principle point of ransomware is to take cash from the
person in question. Here studied the implementation of
machine learning algorithms for malware classification
based on the behavior of malware samples. Using an
iterative approach, determined the set of behavioral
attributes which can be used for ransomware classification
to achieve the optimal classification accuracy. Moreover,
here evaluated classification accuracy of five machine
learning algorithms. Using machine learning, identified
modified variants of ransomware samples, confirming the
new trend of malware in evading classification and
detection systems by modifying their behavior. The
identified ransomware samples from evolving families with
a diverse behavior compared to their predecessors. The
intention of creating malware variants with various
behaviors might be to evade detection systems by
presenting a rare behavior on new samples, or to mislead
detection and classification systems by using a similar
behavior to other ransomware families.
