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  <identifier identifierType="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.20515698</identifier>
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      <creatorName nameType="Personal">Jordan, Ricky</creatorName>
      <givenName>Ricky</givenName>
      <familyName>Jordan</familyName>
      <affiliation affiliationIdentifier="https://ror.org/00systemhelpdesk" affiliationIdentifierScheme="ROR">SystemHelpDesk MSP Threat Research Operations</affiliation>
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  <titles>
    <title>Malware Families Catalog: Architectural Threat Intelligence Benchmark, MITRE ATT&amp;CK Mapping, and Machine Learning Telemetry</title>
  </titles>
  <publisher>SystemHelpDesk MSP</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2026</publicationYear>
  <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Dataset / Technical Report</resourceType>
  <subjects>
    <subject>Malware Analysis</subject>
    <subject>Cyber Threat Intelligence</subject>
    <subject>EMBER 2018</subject>
    <subject>MITRE ATT&amp;CK</subject>
    <subject>Incident Response</subject>
    <subject>Ransomware</subject>
    <subject>STIX 2.1</subject>
  </subjects>
  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2026-10-16</date>
    <date dateType="Updated">2026-10-16</date>
  </dates>
  <language>en</language>
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    <alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="URL">https://malware-families-catalog.systemhelpdesk.com/</alternateIdentifier>
    <alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="URL">https://malware-families-catalog.systemhelpdesk.com/malware-families-catalog-technical-report.pdf</alternateIdentifier>
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    <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="URL" relationType="IsIdenticalTo">https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jordan123234/malware-families-catalog</relatedIdentifier>
    <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="URL" relationType="IsIdenticalTo">https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rickyjordan/malware-families-catalog</relatedIdentifier>
  </relatedIdentifiers>
  <sizes>
    <size>2,966 Malware Family Records</size>
    <size>12,175 STIX 2.1 Objects</size>
    <size>3.3 MB Parquet / 11.3 MB JSONL</size>
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  <formats>
    <format>application/pdf</format>
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    <format>application/json</format>
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  <rightsList>
    <rights rightsURI="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License 2.0</rights>
  </rightsList>
  <descriptions>
    <description descriptionType="Abstract">
      A comprehensive open-access cyber threat intelligence catalog classifying 2,966 real-world malware families derived from the EMBER 2018 benchmark, enriched with telemetry from MalwareBazaar, CISA alerts, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), and MITRE ATT&amp;CK matrices. Authored by Ricky Jordan at SystemHelpDesk MSP.
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