Polymorphic Malware

Pairwise Alignment/AVS

Product

Top Five State-of-the-art AVS Products and Our Top Signatures (S)

Detection Ratio (with Accuracy) and Statistical Measures

W32.CTX/W32.Cholera Virus

AntiVirus Ranked No. 1

Bitdefender Antivirus

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

176/200 (88.00%)

Sensitivity/Recall

88.00%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100.00%

F1 Score

93.62%

AntiVirus Ranked No. 2

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

86/200 (43.00%)

Sensitivity/Recall

43.00%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100.00%

F1 Score

60.14%

AntiVirus Ranked No. 3

McAfee AntiVirus

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

27/200 (13.50%)

Sensitivity/Recall

13.50%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100.00%

F1 Score

23.79%

AntiVirus Ranked No. 4

Norton Security

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

177/200 (88.50%)

Sensitivity/Recall

88.50%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100.00%

F1 Score

93.89%

AntiVirus Ranked No. 5

F-Secure Anti-Virus

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

191/200 (95.50%)

Sensitivity/Recall

95.50%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100.00%

F1 Score

97.69%

Variant 1 and Variant 2

S4

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

183/200 (91.50%)

Sensitivity/Recall

91.50%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100%

F1 Score

95.56%

Variant 2 and Variant 3

S7

Detection Ratio (Accuracy)

189/200 (94.50%)

Sensitivity/Recall

94.50%

Specificity

0.00%

Precision

100%

F1 Score

97.17%