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Mass discovery of android malware behavioral characteristics for detection consideration

  • Xin Su
  • , Weiqi Shi
  • , Jiuchuan Lin
  • , Xin Wang
  • Hunan Police Academy
  • Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China

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Abstract

Android malware have surged and been sophisticated, posing a great threat to users. The key challenge of detect Android malware is how to discovery their behavioral characteristics at a large scale, and use them to detect Android malware. In this work, we are motivated to discover the discriminatory features extracted from Android APK files for Android malware detection. To achieve this goal, firstly we extract a very large number of static features from each Android application (or app). Secondly, we explain the importance of each kind of feature in Android malware detection. Thirdly, we fed these features into three different classifiers (e.g., SVM, DT, RandomFoerst) for the detection of Android malware. We conduct extensive experiments on large real-world app sets consisting of 6,820 Android malware and 37,581 Android benign apps. The experimental results and our analysis give insights regarding what discriminatory features are most effective to characterize Android malware for building an effective and efficient Android malware detection approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCloud Computing and Security - 4th International Conference, ICCCS 2018, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsXingming Sun, Zhaoqing Pan, Elisa Bertino
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages101-112
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030000110
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2018 - Haikou, China
Duration: Jun 8 2018Jun 10 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11065 LNCS

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security, ICCCS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHaikou
Period06/8/1806/10/18

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