Using Machine Learning to Name Malware

The current situation with malware naming conventions is in disarray. Different antivirus vendors use different naming conventions and sometimes they don't follow their own standards. Let's look at a few results for a random virus. These are the results from VirusTotal, a meta-antivirus scanning service. We can see that it is a Trojan malware with some vendors (Dr.Web and TrendMicro) setting the family as StartPage, some saying it's in the Agent family, some saying it is in the FakeAV family and some saying it is Generic "KR" malware.