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Abstract
Providing security for information is highly critical in the current era with
devices enabled with smart technology, where assuming a day without the
internet is highly impossible. Fast internet at a cheaper price, not only made
communication easy for legitimate users but also for cybercriminals to induce
attacks in various dimensions to breach privacy and security. Cybercriminals
gain illegal access and breach the privacy of users to harm them in multiple
ways. Malware is one such tool used by hackers to execute their malicious
intent. Development in AI technology is utilized by malware developers to cause
social harm. In this work, we intend to show how Artificial Intelligence and
Machine learning can be used to detect and mitigate these cyber-attacks induced
by malware in specific obfuscated malware. We conducted experiments with memory
feature engineering on memory analysis of malware samples. Binary
classification can identify whether a given sample is malware or not, but
identifying the type of malware will only guide what next step to be taken for
that malware, to stop it from proceeding with its further action. Hence, we
propose a multi-class classification model to detect the three types of
obfuscated malware with an accuracy of 89.07% using the Classic Random Forest
algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, there is very little amount of work
done in classifying multiple obfuscated malware by a single model. We also
compared our model with a few state-of-the-art models and found it
comparatively better.