Malware Families Catalog - 2,899 Real-World Threats Categorized for Security Teams & Incident Response
A catalog of 2,899 real-world malware families extracted from the EMBER 2018 benchmark, categorized for security teams, SOC analysts, and incident response.
Mirrors: Hugging Face · Kaggle · GitHub
Quick stats
- Total families: 2,899
- Categorized: 245
- Categories represented: 30
- Source: EMBER 2018 (Elastic)
- License: Apache-2.0
Top categories
- trojan_generic: 67 families
- pua: 29 families
- rat: 23 families
- banking_trojan: 18 families
- adware: 17 families
- infostealer: 13 families
- file_infector: 9 families
- worm: 9 families
- pua_tool: 6 families
- packer: 6 families
- rogueware: 6 families
- spam_bot: 5 families
- ransomware: 5 families
- loader: 4 families
- downloader: 4 families
Top 50 families by sample count
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