HilEnT: Hilbert, Entropy Transformed Image Based Malware Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04772v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:04:45 GMT
• Title: HilEnT: Hilbert, Entropy Transformed Image Based Malware Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel malware binary to image transformation technique HilEnT.<n>Three grayscale images are combined to form a three-channel colored image.<n>We performed supervised binary and multiclass classification to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed HilEnT.
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• Abstract: With the increasing threat of malware across various software related domains, malware detection and classification is critical to determine the response actions. Different strategies have been adopted to address the challenge of malware detection. With the advent of deep learning techniques, malware detection using image processing has garnered research attention. In this work, we proposed a novel malware binary to image transformation technique HilEnT based on a combination of Hilbert curve-based transformation of malware binary and the entropy feature comparison of malware file with benign and malware classes. Three grayscale images produced during this process are combined to form a three-channel colored image which is then used for malware detection using machine learning techniques. We performed supervised binary and multiclass classification to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed HilEnT. We also evaluated a few-shot learning technique to assess the robustness of our proposed HilEnT in a practical setting where the number of available class samples is limited. Furthermore, we investigated the benefits of combination of Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Principal Component Analysis for time performance improvements through feature reduction techniques. We evaluated our proposed methodology on four datasets: Dike, Michael Lester Dataset, Microsoft BIG 2015 and a self-collected dataset, and achieved the state-of-the-art results.

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