Information Security Handbook

7 PDF Malware Classifiers – A Survey, Future Directions and Recommended Methodology

N.S. Vishnu, Sripada Manasa Lakshmi, Kavita, Sahil Verma, and Awadhesh Kumar Shukla

CONTENTS

1. 7.1 Introduction
2. 7.2 X-Ray of PDF File
3. 7.3 Reading of PDF Files
4. 7.4 Steps Involved in Classifying PDF Files
5. 7.4.1 Prior Procedure Before the Actual Parsing
6. 7.4.2 Feature Extraction
7. 7.4.3 Classifier
8. 7.5 Modes of Classification
9. 7.6 Static Classification of PDF Files
10. 7.7 Static Classification Systems
11. 7.7.1 PJScan
12. 7.7.2 N-Gram
13. 7.7.3 Slayer
14. 7.7.4 N-Gram II
15. 7.7.5 PDFrate v1
16. 7.7.6 Hidost
17. 7.7.7 Slayer NEO
18. 7.7.8 PDFrate v2
19. 7.8 Comparison Between the Different Static Classifiers
20. 7.9 Dynamic Classification of PDF Files
21. 7.10 Dynamic Classification Systems
22. 7.10.1 PlatPal
23. 7.10.2 ...