MC-dataset-multiclass

Multiclass and labeled dataset containing 3290 samples of cleanwares and 16450 of malwares. Five classes of malware (backdoor, rootkit, trojan, virus and worm) with 3290 samples of each class were labeled using antivirus scans from VirusTotal. It was considered for the classification of each sample of malware, the most present class returned by the antivirus scans. Files with a maximum size of approximately 3.2 MB. All files were named with their md5 hashes, hiding their original names. The cleanwares were extracted from several different versions of Windows systems and the malwares obtained from the VirusShare repository.