• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.286-293
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• 2021

Recently, the quick development rate of apps in the Android platform has led to an accelerated increment in creating malware applications by cyber attackers. Numerous Android malware detection tools have utilized conventional signature-based approaches to detect malware apps. However, these conventional strategies can't identify the latest apps on whether applications are malware or not. Many new malware apps are periodically discovered but not all malware Apps can be accurately detected. Hence, there is a need to propose intelligent approaches that are able to detect the newly developed Android malware applications. In this study, Radial Basis Function (RBF) networks are trained using known Android applications and then used to detect the latest and new Android malware applications. Initially, the optimal permission features of Android apps are selected using Information Gain Ratio (IGR). Appropriately, the features selected by IGR are utilized to train the RBF networks in order to detect effectively the new Android malware apps. The empirical results showed that RBF achieved the best detection accuracy (97.20%) among other common machine learning techniques. Furthermore, RBF accomplished the best detection results in most of the other measures.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.2964-2983
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• 2015

As the Android operating system has become a key target for malware authors, Android protection has become a thriving research area. Beside the proved importance of system permissions for malware analysis, there is a lot of overlapping in permissions between malware apps and goodware apps. The exploitation of them effectively in malware detection is still an open issue. In this paper, to investigate the feasibility of neuro-fuzzy techniques to Android protection based on system permissions, we introduce a self-adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system to classify the Android apps into malware and goodware. According to the framework introduced, the most significant permissions that characterize optimally malware apps are identified using Information Gain Ratio method and encapsulated into patterns of features. The patterns of features data is used to train and test the system using stratified cross-validation methodologies. The experiments conducted conclude that the proposed classifier can be effective in Android protection. The results also underline that the neuro-fuzzy techniques are feasible to employ in the field.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.202-209
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• 2023

Android malware is now on the rise, because of the rising interest in the Android operating system. Machine learning models may be used to classify unknown Android malware utilizing characteristics gathered from the dynamic and static analysis of an Android applications. Anti-virus software simply searches for the signs of the virus instance in a specific programme to detect it while scanning. Anti-virus software that competes with it keeps these in large databases and examines each file for all existing virus and malware signatures. The proposed model aims to provide a machine learning method that depend on the malware detection method for Android inability to detect malware apps and improve phone users' security and privacy. This system tracks numerous permission-based characteristics and events collected from Android apps and analyses them using a classifier model to determine whether the program is good ware or malware. This method used the machine learning techniques KNN-SVM, DBN, and GRU in which help to find the accuracy which gives the different values like KNN gives 87.20 percents accuracy, SVM gives 91.40 accuracy, Naive Bayes gives 85.10 and DBN-GRU Gives 97.90. Furthermore, in this paper, we simply employ standard machine learning techniques; but, in future work, we will attempt to improve those machine learning algorithms in order to develop a better detection algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.2180-2197
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• 2019

With the proliferation of the Android malicious applications, malware becomes more capable of hiding or confusing its malicious intent through the use of code obfuscation, which has significantly weaken the effectiveness of the conventional defense mechanisms. Therefore, in order to effectively detect unknown malicious applications on the Android platform, we propose DroidVecDeep, an Android malware detection method using deep learning technique. First, we extract various features and rank them using Mean Decrease Impurity. Second, we transform the features into compact vectors based on word2vec. Finally, we train the classifier based on deep learning model. A comprehensive experimental study on a real sample collection was performed to compare various malware detection approaches. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other Android malware detection techniques.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2023

Malwares are becoming a major problem nowadays all around the world in android operating systems. The malware is a piece of software developed for harming or exploiting certain other hardware as well as software. The term Malware is also known as malicious software which is utilized to define Trojans, viruses, as well as other kinds of spyware. There have been developed many kinds of techniques for protecting the android operating systems from malware during the last decade. However, the existing techniques have numerous drawbacks such as accuracy to detect the type of malware in real-time in a quick manner for protecting the android operating systems. In this article, the authors developed a hybrid model for android malware detection using a decision tree and KNN (k-nearest neighbours) technique. First, Dalvik opcode, as well as real opcode, was pulled out by using the reverse procedure of the android software. Secondly, eigenvectors of sampling were produced by utilizing the n-gram model. Our suggested hybrid model efficiently combines KNN along with the decision tree for effective detection of the android malware in real-time. The outcome of the proposed scheme illustrates that the proposed hybrid model is better in terms of the accurate detection of any kind of malware from the Android operating system in a fast and accurate manner. In this experiment, 815 sample size was selected for the normal samples and the 3268-sample size was selected for the malicious samples. Our proposed hybrid model provides pragmatic values of the parameters namely precision, ACC along with the Recall, and F1 such as 0.93, 0.98, 0.96, and 0.99 along with 0.94, 0.99, 0.93, and 0.99 respectively. In the future, there are vital possibilities to carry out more research in this field to develop new methods for Android malware detection.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2017

스마트폰 사용자가 증가하고 스마트폰이 다양한 서비스와 함께 일상생활에서 널리 사용됨에 따라 스마트폰 사용자를 노리는 악성코드 또한 증가하고 있다. 안드로이드는 2012년 이후로 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 스마트폰 운영체제이지만, 안드로이드 마켓의 개방성으로 인해 수많은 악성 앱이 마켓에 존재하며 사용자에게 위협이 되고 있다. 현재 대부분의 안드로이드 악성 앱 탐지 프로그램이 사용하는 규칙 기반의 탐지 방법은 쉽게 우회가 가능할 뿐만 아니라, 새로운 악성 앱에 대해서는 대응이 어렵다는 문제가 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 앱의 정적 분석과 딥러닝을 결합하여 스마트폰에서 직접 악성 앱을 탐지할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 수집한 6,120개의 악성 앱과 7,000개의 정상 앱 데이터 셋을 가지고 제안하는 방법을 평가한 결과 98.05%의 정확도로 악성 앱과 정상 앱을 분류하였고, 학습하지 않은 악성 앱 패밀리의 탐지에서도 좋은 성능을 보였으며, 스마트폰 환경에서 평균 10초 내외로 분석을 수행하였다.

• Journal of Internet Technology
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.423-439
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• 2021

Android is one of the most popular platforms for the mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This popularity has made Android-based devices a valuable target of malicious apps. Thus, it is essential to devise automatic and portable malware detection approaches for the Android platform. There are many studies on detecting mobile malware using machine learning techniques. In these studies, however, the dataset is imbalanced or is not large enough to generalize the machine learning model, or the dimensionality of features is too high to apply nonlinear classifiers. In this article, we propose a machine learning-based Android malware detection scheme that uses API calls and permissions as features. To restrict the dimensionality of features, we propose minimal domain knowledge-based and Gini importance-based feature selection. We construct large and balanced real-world datasets to build a generalized and non-skewed model and verify our model through experiments. We achieve 96.51% classification accuracy using Random Forest classifier with low overhead. In addition, we also provide an analysis on falsely classified samples in detail. The analysis results show that API hiding can degrade the performance of API call information-based malware detection systems.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.959-981
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• 2017

Existing Android malware detection approaches mostly have concentrated on superficial features such as requested or used permissions, which can't reflect the essential differences between benign apps and malware. In this paper, we propose a quantitative calculation model of application risks based on the key observation that the essential differences between benign apps and malware actually lie in the way how permissions are used, or rather the way how their corresponding permission methods are used. Specifically, we employ a fine-grained analysis on Android application risks. We firstly classify application risks into five specific categories and then introduce comprehensive risk, which is computed based on the former five, to describe the overall risk of an application. Given that users' risk preference and risk-bearing ability are naturally fuzzy, we design and implement a fuzzy logic system to calculate the comprehensive risk. On the basis of the quantitative calculation model, we propose a risk classification based approach for Android malware detection. The experiments show that our approach can achieve high accuracy with a low false positive rate using the RandomForest algorithm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권9호
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• pp.4658-4679
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• 2017

Android is now the most popular smartphone platform and remains rapid growth. There are huge number of sensitive privacy information stored in Android devices. Kinds of methods have been proposed to detect Android malicious applications and protect the privacy information. In this work, we focus on extracting the fine-grained features to maximize the information of Android malware detection, and selecting the least joint features to minimize the number of features. Firstly, permissions and APIs, not only from Android permissions and SDK APIs but also from the developer-defined permissions and third-party library APIs, are extracted as features from the decompiled source codes. Secondly, feature selection methods, including information gain (IG), regularization and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, are used to analyze and utilize the correlation between the features to eliminate the redundant data, reduce the feature dimension and mine the useful joint features. Furthermore, regularization and PSO are integrated to create a new joint feature mining method. Experiment results show that the joint feature mining method can utilize the advantages of regularization and PSO, and ensure good performance and efficiency for Android malware detection.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2188-2203
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• 2021

With the rapid development of mobile Internet, smart phones have been widely popularized, among which Android platform dominates. Due to it is open source, malware on the Android platform is rampant. In order to improve the efficiency of malware detection, this paper proposes deep learning Android malicious detection system based on behavior features. First of all, the detection system adopts the static analysis method to extract different types of behavior features from Android applications, and extract sensitive behavior features through Term frequency-inverse Document Frequency algorithm for each extracted behavior feature to construct detection features through unified abstract expression. Secondly, Long Short-Term Memory neural network model is established to select and learn from the extracted attributes and the learned attributes are used to detect Android malicious applications, Analysis and further optimization of the application behavior parameters, so as to build a deep learning Android malicious detection method based on feature analysis. We use different types of features to evaluate our method and compare it with various machine learning-based methods. Study shows that it outperforms most existing machine learning based approaches and detects 95.31% of the malware.