Modeling malicious behavior that occurs in the absence of users

Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer readable mediums for modeling malicious behavior that occurs in the absence of users. A system trains an anomaly detection model using attributes associated with a first plurality of events representing system activity on one or more clean machines when users are not present. Next, the system utilizes the trained anomaly detection model to remove benign events from a second plurality of events captured from infected machines when users are not present. Then, the system utilizes malicious events, from the second plurality of events, to train a classifier. Next, the classifier identifies a first set of attributes which are able to predict if an event is caused by malware with a predictive power greater than a threshold.