1. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to execute instructions for: receiving query binary code; processing the query binary code to generate one or more query code fingerprints comprising compressed representations of respective functional components of the query binary code; comparing the one or more query code fingerprints to at least some reference code fingerprints stored in a database to determine a similarity measure between the one or more query code fingerprints and at least some of the reference code fingerprints; and preparing at least one report based on the similarity measure, wherein processing the query binary code comprises converting the query binary code into functional representation code, breaking the functional representation code into individual functional units, assigning a respective token to each corresponding unit portion of each respective one of the individual functional sections, and mapping each token to a character to define an ordered string of characters that form the compressed representation.
1. An apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to execute instructions for: receiving query binary code; processing the query binary code to generate one or more query code fingerprints comprising compressed representations of respective functional components of the query binary code; comparing the one or more query code fingerprints to at least some reference code fingerprints stored in a database to determine a similarity measure between the one or more query code fingerprints and at least some of the reference code fingerprints; and preparing at least one report based on the similarity measure, wherein processing the query binary code comprises converting the query binary code into functional representation code, breaking the functional representation code into individual functional units, assigning a respective token to each corresponding unit portion of each respective one of the individual functional sections, and mapping each token to a character to define an ordered string of characters that form the compressed representation. 3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the reference code fingerprints each correspond to known malware or a portion of known malware.