The increase in stealth of malware has brought the Dendritic Cell Algorithm (DCA) many difficulties in malware detection. To solve this problem, in this paper we take inspiration from immunological adjuvant which can enhance the immune responses to weak antigens, and propose its counterpart namely artificial adjuvant as an improvement for the DCA. Artificial adjuvants are capable of increasing the immunogenicity of stealthy malware and accelerating the reaction of the dendritic cells (DCs). In such a way, they shed some lights for the DCA on improving the performance of stealthy malware detection in respect of not only improving the detection rate, but also helping detecting hidden malware as soon as possible.
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