• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.12
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• pp.1325-1333
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• 2016

Software classification has several applications such as copyright infringement detection, malware classification, and software automatic categorization in software repositories. It can be also employed by software filtering systems to prevent the transmission of illegal software. If illegal software is identified by measuring software similarity in software filtering systems, the average number of comparisons can be reduced by shrinking the search space. In this study, we focused on the classification of Windows executables using API call information and machine learning. We evaluated the classification performance of machine learning-based classifier according to the refinement method for API information and machine learning algorithm. The results showed that the classification success rate of SVM (Support Vector Machine) with PolyKernel was higher than other algorithms. Since the API call information can be extracted from binary executables and machine learning-based classifier can identify tampered executables, API call information and machine learning-based software classifiers are suitable for software filtering systems.