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Table 4 Percentage of malicious PDF files in previous studies

From: Keeping pace with the creation of new malicious PDF files using an active-learning based detection framework

Study

Year

Core of the study

Malicious files percentage

[13]

2011

Dynamic analysis of embedded JavaScript code

9

[7]

2011

Static lexical analysis of embedded JavaScript code

94

[20]

2011

Dynamic analysis of embedded JavaScript code

69

[9]

2012

Static tokenization of embedded JavaScript code

43

[19]

2012

Dynamic analysis of embedded JavaScript code

65

[16]

2012

Static analysis of meta-features

5

[8]

2012

Static analysis of embedded keywords

53

[17]

2013

Static analysis using entropy and n-gram

58

[21]

2013

Dynamic analysis of embedded JavaScript code

29

[6]

2013

Static analysis of structural features

12

 

Average 38