RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Survey on Malware Detection and Classification
Rupali Komatwar, Manesh Kokare
Abstract
We, the Editor and Publisher of Journal of Applied Security Research, have retracted the following article, which was published in volume 16, issue 3, 2021:Rupali Komatwara & Manesh Kokare. A Survey on Malware Detection and Classification. DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2020.1796162.This article has been retracted because it contains a significant amount of unreferenced material from previously published sources:Alireza Souri & Rahil Hosseini (2018). A state-of-the-art survey of malware detection approaches using data mining techniques. Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 8.Lakshmanan Nataraj, Gregorie Jacob & B. S. Manjunath (2010). Detecting Packed Executables Based on Raw Binary Data. Technical Report, Vision Research Lab, University of California Santa Barbara.Lakshmanan Nataraj (2011). Malware Images: Visualization and Automatic Classification. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security.Lakshmanan Nataraj (2015). A Signal Processing Approach to Malware Analysis. Ph.D. thesis, University of California Santa Barbara.The amount of unreferenced material exceeds the acceptable limits outlined in the Publisher’s corrections policy, regardless of whether the lack of referencing was intentional. The authors have been notified of the decision to retract.We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted.”