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Microsoft and Intel Collaborating on a project STAMINA


Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence and Intel Labs are collaborating for a project named STAMINA.



STAMINA: Static Malware As Image Network Analysis is a technique based on Deep Learning.

What is Project STAMINA?

STAMINA focus on detecting malware using deep learning techniques. It converts the malicious code into 2 dimensional images. Then the images can be used to analyze the characteristics of malware and classifies according to their types.


Steps in STAMINA
Source: Microsoft

The 2D images are fed into the deep neural network which is trained with 60% of the known malware samples. The DNN scans and identify the image as clean or infected. This Image based technique achieves 99.07% of accuracy.
Pixel File Sizes for different Image Widths
Source: Microsoft and Intel

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