An apparatus for generating a signature that reflects the similarity of a malware detection and classification system of the present invention includes a pre-processing unit configured to generate an input vector from input information, a classification unit configured to calculate a latent vector which indicates the similarity between at least one malware classification and the input vector by performing a plurality of computations to which learned weights of a plurality of layers are applied on the input vector through a deep neural network model, and a signature generation unit configured to generate a signature of the malware in a form of a binary vector by quantizing the latent vector.