Performance of Malware Detection Tools: A Comparison

Malwares are a big threat to modern computer world. There are many tools and techniques for detecting malwares, like Intrusion Detection System, Firewalls and Virus scans etc. But malicious executables like unseen zero day malwares are still a major challenge. In this paper, we are going to present a performance comparison of existing tools and techniques for malware detection. In order to know the performance of malware detection tools, we have created a virtual Malware analysis lab using virtual box. We have taken 17 most commonly known malware detection tools and 29 malwares as a data set for our comparison. We have tested and analyzed the performance of malware detection tools on the basis of several parameters which are also shown graphically. It is found that the top three tools (based on certain parameters and the given data set) are the Regshot, Process Monitor and Process Explorer.