| Ahmadi et al. (2016): ENT, Bytes 1-G, STR, IMG1, IMG2, MD1, MISC, OPC, SEC, REG, DP, API, SYM, MD2 IMG and Opcode N-Grams + Ensemble Learning (XGBoost) | 0.9976 | HYDRA: A multimodal deep learning framework for malware classification | - |
| Zhang et al. (2016): Total lines of each Section, Operation Code Count, API Usage, Special Symbols Count, Asm File Pixel Intensity Feature, Bytes File Block Size Distribution, Bytes File N-Gram + Ensemble Learning (XGBoost) | 0.9974 | HYDRA: A multimodal deep learning framework for malware classification | - |
| Hierarchical Convolutional Network | 0.9913 | A Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Network for Malware Classification | - |
| Ahmadi et al. (2016): API feature vector + XGBoost | 0.9868 | HYDRA: A multimodal deep learning framework for malware classification | - |
| Scaled bytes sequence + CNN & Bidirectional LSTM | 0.9814 | HYDRA: A multimodal deep learning framework for malware classification | - |
| Grayscale images + Opcode N-grams (Feature selection for malware classification) | 0.9770 | Orthrus: A Bimodal Learning Architecture for Malware Classification | - |
| Hierarchical Attention Network | 0.9742 | A Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Network for Malware Classification | - |
| Narayanan et al. (2016): PCA features + 1-NN | 0.9660 | HYDRA: A multimodal deep learning framework for malware classification | - |
| Deep Transferred Generative Adversarial Networks | 0.9639 | Orthrus: A Bimodal Learning Architecture for Malware Classification | - |