A Study on the Application of Distributed System Technology-Guided Machine Learning in Malware Detection

In recent years, with the development of information technology, the Internet has become an essential tool for human daily life. However, as the popularity and scale of the Internet continue to expand, malware has also emerged as an increasingly widespread trend, and its development has brought many negative impacts to the society. As the number of types of malware is getting enormous, the attacks are constantly updated, and at the same time, the spread is very fast, causing more and more damage to the network, the requirements and standards for malware detection are constantly rising. How to effectively detect malware is a research trend; in order to tackle the new needs and problems arising from the development of malware, this paper proposes to guide machine learning algorithms to implement malware detection in a distributed environment: firstly, each detection node in the distributed network performs anomaly detection on the captured software information and data, then performs feature analysis to discover unknown malware and obtain its samples, updates the new malware features to all feature detection nodes in the whole distributed network, and trains the random forest-based machine learning algorithm for malware classification and detection, thus completing the global response processing capability for malware. By building a distributed system framework, the global capture capability of malware detection is enhanced to robustly respond to the increasing and rapid spread of malware, and machine learning algorithms are integrated into it to achieve effective detection of malware. Extended experiments on the Ember 2017 and Ember 2018 databases show that our proposed approach achieves advanced performance and effectively addresses the problem of malware detection.