Adobe Systems has released a malware classification tool to help security incident first responders, malware analysts and security researchers more easily identify malicious binary files. The tool uses machine learning algorithms to classify Windows executable and dynamic link library (DLL) files as clean, malicious or unknown. Malware Classifier is available for download from SourceForge. However, some programmers have questioned the quality of the tool’s code because of its heavy use of conditional statements on Twitter and other social media websites, which some have pointed out are the result of the direct inclusion of an J48 decision tree classifier.”]

