VolMemLyzer: Volatile Memory Analyzer for Malware Classification using Feature Engineering
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Memory forensics is a fundamental step that inspects malicious activities during live malware infection. Memory analysis not only captures malware footprints but also collects several essential features that may be used to extract hidden original code from obfuscated malware. There are significant efforts in analyzing volatile memory using several tools and approaches. These approaches fetch relevant information from the kernel and user space of the operating system to investigate running malware. However, the fetching process will accelerate if the most dominating features required for malware classification are readily available. This paper introduces VolMemLyzer, a python-based tool developed to excerpt the most critical characterization feature set from the memory dumps taken during live malware infection. It extracts thirty-six most essential features and ranks them to classify malware. The tool is tested with a dataset of 1900 benign and malware samples with high true positive rate for binary and multi-class malware classification.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it