Paper: Optimizing ssDeep for use at scale

Brian Wallace presents tool to optimize ssDeep comparisons.

Malware rarely comes as a single file, and to avoid having to analyse each sample in a set individually, a fuzzy hashing algorithm tool like ssDeep can tell a researcher
whether two files are very similar — or not similar at all.

When working with a large set of samples, the number of comparisons (which grows quadratically with the set size) may soon become extremely large though. To make this task more manageable, Cylance researcher
Brian Wallace devised an optimization to ssDeep comparisons.

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