# Microsoft and Intel Project Converts Malware Into Images Before Analyzing It

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**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsoft-and-intel-project-converts-malware-into-images-before-analyzing-it/85877 "2020-05-11T16:11:08Z")\
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Microsoft and Intel have collaborated on a new research project that explores a new approach to detecting and classifying malware. From a report:

_Called STAMINA (STAtic Malware-as-Image Network Analysis), the project relies on a new technique that [converts malware samples into grayscale images and then scans the image](https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-intel-project-converts-malware-into-images-before-analyzing-it/) for textural and structural patterns specific to malware samples. The Intel-Microsoft research team said the entire process followed a few simple steps. The first consisted of taking an input file and converting its binary form into a stream of raw pixel data. Researchers then took this one-dimensional (1D) pixel stream and converted it into a 2D photo so that normal image analysis algorithms can analyze it._