Detecting Malware Pre-execution with Static Analysis and Machine Learning - SentinelOne

Machine learning is a vast and ever-changing field and what I'll be describing here is generally concerned with how machine learning applies to the anti-virus industry and specifically how we are using it to predict if a file is malicious or benign. Creating a predictive model starts with collecting a huge number and variety of malicious and benign files. Then, features are extracted from each file along with the file's label (e.g.