• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2021

The attack trend on end-users via mobile devices is increasing in both the danger level and the number of attacks. Especially, mobile devices using the Android operating system are being recognized as increasingly being exploited and attacked strongly. In addition, one of the recent attack methods on the Android operating system is to take advantage of Android Package Kit (APK) files. Therefore, the problem of early detecting and warning attacks on mobile devices using the Android operating system through the APK file is very necessary today. This paper proposes to use the method of analyzing abnormal behavior of APK files and use it as a basis to conclude about signs of malware attacking the Android operating system. In order to achieve this purpose, we propose 2 main tasks: i) analyzing and extracting abnormal behavior of APK files; ii) detecting malware in APK files based on behavior analysis techniques using machine learning or deep learning algorithms. The difference between our research and other related studies is that instead of focusing on analyzing and extracting typical features of APK files, we will try to analyze and enumerate all the features of the APK file as the basis for classifying malicious APK files and clean APK files.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2019년도 제59차 동계학술대회논문집 27권1호
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• pp.387-388
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• 2019

As malicious apps vary significantly across Android malware, it is challenging to prevent that the end-users download apps from unsecured app markets. In this paper, we propose an approach to classify the malicious methods based on permissions using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) that is used to embed the semantics among Intent and permissions. Then the malicious method that is an unsecured method will be removed and re-uploaded to official market. This approach may induce that the end-users download apps from official market in order to reduce the risk of attacks.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.3723-3737
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• 2022

Google Play is one of the largest Android phone app markets and it contains both free and paid apps. It provides a variety of categories for every target user who has different needs and purposes. The customer's rate every product based on their experience of apps and based on the average rating the position of an app in these arch varies. Fraudulent behaviors emerge in those apps which incorporate search rank maltreatment and malware proliferation. To distinguish the fraudulent behavior, a novel framework is structured that finds and uses follows left behind by fraudsters, to identify both malware and applications exposed to the search rank fraud method. This strategy correlates survey exercises and remarkably joins identified review relations with semantic and behavioral signals produced from Google Play application information, to distinguish dubious applications. The proposed model accomplishes 90% precision in grouping gathered informational indexes of malware, fakes, and authentic apps. It finds many fraudulent applications that right now avoid Google Bouncers recognition technology. It also helped the discovery of fake reviews using the reviewer relationship amount of reviews which are forced as positive reviews for each reviewed Google play the android app.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.3756-3777
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• 2019

Recent internet development is helping malware researchers to generate malicious code variants through automated tools. Due to this reason, the number of malicious variants is increasing day by day. Consequently, the performance improvement in malware analysis is the critical requirement to stop the rapid expansion of malware. The existing research proved that the similarities among malware variants could be used for detection and family classification. In this paper, a Cross-Platform Malware Variant Classification System (CP-MVCS) proposed that converted malware binary into a grayscale image. Further, malicious features extracted from the grayscale image through Combined SIFT-GIST Malware (CSGM) description. Later, these features used to identify the relevant family of malware variant. CP-MVCS reduced computational time and improved classification accuracy by using CSGM feature description along machine learning classification. The experiment performed on four publically available datasets of Windows OS and Android OS. The experimental results showed that the computation time and malware classification accuracy of CP-MVCS was higher than traditional methods. The evaluation also showed that CP-MVCS was not only differentiated families of malware variants but also identified both malware and benign samples in mix fashion efficiently.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권9호
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• pp.141-149
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• 2023

Repacked mobile apps constitute about 78% of all malware of Android, and it greatly affects the technical ecosystem of Android. Although many methods exist for repacked app detection, most of them suffer from performance issues. In this manuscript, a novel method using the Constant Key Point Selection and Limited Binary Pattern (CKPS: LBP) Feature extraction-based Hashing is proposed for the identification of repacked android applications through the visual similarity, which is a notable feature of repacked applications. The results from the experiment prove that the proposed method can effectively detect the apps that are similar visually even that are even under the double fold content manipulations. From the experimental analysis, it proved that the proposed CKPS: LBP method has a better efficiency of detecting 1354 similar applications from a repository of 95124 applications and also the computational time was 0.91 seconds within which a user could get the decision of whether the app repacked. The overall efficiency of the proposed algorithm is 41% greater than the average of other methods, and the time complexity is found to have been reduced by 31%. The collision probability of the Hashes was 41% better than the average value of the other state of the art methods.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제23권8호
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• pp.177-189
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• 2023

Malware detection is an increasingly important operational focus in cyber security, particularly given the fast pace of such threats (e.g., new malware variants introduced every day). There has been great interest in exploring the use of machine learning techniques in automating and enhancing the effectiveness of malware detection and analysis. In this paper, we present a deep recurrent neural network solution as a stacked Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) with a pre-training as a regularization method to avoid random network initialization. In our proposal, we use global and short dependencies of the inputs. With pre-training, we avoid random initialization and are able to improve the accuracy and robustness of malware threat hunting. The proposed method speeds up the convergence (in comparison to stacked LSTM) by reducing the length of malware OpCode or bytecode sequences. Hence, the complexity of our final method is reduced. This leads to better accuracy, higher Mattews Correlation Coefficients (MCC), and Area Under the Curve (AUC) in comparison to a standard LSTM with similar detection time. Our proposed method can be applied in real-time malware threat hunting, particularly for safety critical systems such as eHealth or Internet of Military of Things where poor convergence of the model could lead to catastrophic consequences. We evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed method on Windows, Ransomware, Internet of Things (IoT), and Android malware datasets using both static and dynamic analysis. For the IoT malware detection, we also present a comparative summary of the performance on an IoT-specific dataset of our proposed method and the standard stacked LSTM method. More specifically, of our proposed method achieves an accuracy of 99.1% in detecting IoT malware samples, with AUC of 0.985, and MCC of 0.95; thus, outperforming standard LSTM based methods in these key metrics.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.305-313
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• 2018

스마트폰의 폭발적인 증가와 효율성으로 개방형 모바일 운영체제인 안드로이드의 활용도가 점차 증가하고 있고, 모바일 기기, 가전제품의 운영체제, IoT 관련 제품들과 더불어 메카트로닉스의 분야에도 활용될 수 있는 가용성과 안정성이 증명되고 있다. 하지만, 사용성이 증가하면 증가할수록 안드로이드 기반의 악성코드 역시 기하급수적으로 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 일반 PC와 다르게 모바일 제품에 악성코드가 유일될 경우, 모바일 기기가 Lock됨으로 사용할 수 없고, 불필요한 과금과 더불어 수많은 개인의 연락처가 외부로 유출될 수 있으며, 모바일 기기를 활용한 금융서비스를 통해 막대한 손실을 볼 수 있는 문제점이 있다. 따라서, 우리는 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 유해한 악성 파일을 실시간으로 탐지 및 삭제할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 또한 이 논문에서는 안드로이드 기반의 어플리케이션 설치 과정 및 시그니처 기반 악성코드 탐지방법을 통해 보다 효과적인 방법으로 악성코드를 실시간 감시하고 삭제할 수 있는 기법을 설계하였다. 우리가 제안하고 설계한 방법은 모바일 환경과 같이 제한적인 리소스 환경에서 악성코드를 효과적으로 탐지할 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2021년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.655-656
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• 2021

2021년 4월, 재난안전통신망 서비스가 개시되었으나 서비스 초기로 보안기능이 취약한 상태이다. 현재 Android 기반 APP의 보안방법은 구글 프로텍트(Google Protect)의 기술을 사용하여 악성코드를 탐지하는 것이다. 악성코드는 종류가 다양하고 많기 때문에 직접 탐지하기 어려우므로, AI와 구글 프로텍트의 기술을 합한 악성코드탐지 기술을 재난안전통신망에 적용함으로써 'AI 기반 재난안전통신망 프로텍트'를 구현하는 방법에 대해 연구한다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.105-115
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• 2019

최근 지능화된 안드로이드 악성코드는 정적 분석만으로는 악성행위에 대한 탐지가 어려워지고 있다. SO파일, 동적로딩을 이용한 코드 호출 및 문자열 난독화를 적용한 악성코드의 경우 분석을 위해 다양한 툴을 이용하여도 원본 코드에 대한 정보 추출이 어렵다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 다양한 동적 분석기법이 있지만, 동적 분석은 루팅 환경이나 에뮬레이터 환경을 요구한다. 그러나 동적 분석의 경우 악성코드들이 루팅 및 에뮬레이터 탐지를 실시하여 분석 환경을 탐지 하고 있다. 본 논문은 이를 해결하고자 다양한 루팅 탐지 기법을 조사하여 실단말에서 루팅탐지 우회 환경을 구축하였다. 또한, Xposed를 이용하여 안드로이드 악성코드 분석을 위한 SDK 코드 후킹 모듈을 설계하였고, 코드 흐름을 위한 인텐트 추적, 동적 로딩 파일에 대한 정보, 다양한 API 정보 추출을 구현하였다. 이를 통해 악성코드의 난독화 된 정보 및 다양한 악성 행위 정보를 분석하고자 한다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.617-624
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• 2014

스마트폰 사용이 급증하였고 스마트폰에 탑재되는 OS 중 안드로이드가 차지하는 비중이 가장 높아졌다. 그러나 오픈소스로 제공되는 안드로이드의 특성이 악의적인 사용자들에게 유용하게 사용되어 스마트폰 사용자들의 프라이버시를 위협하고 있다. 이 논문에서 우리는 안드로이드 앱에서 요구하는 권한 정보를 사용하여 효율적인 악성앱 감지법을 제안한다. 이를 위하여 주성분 분석과 kNN 분류자를 사용하였으며, 새로운 앱들의 특성들을 분류자에 실시간으로 반영하기 위한 incremental kNN 분류자를 제안한다. 또한 이 분류자들의 정확률을 측정하기 위하여 k-묶음 교차 검증법을 사용하였다. 실험에 사용된 실제 악성앱 샘플을 얻기 위하여 Contagio에 요청하였으며 이를 이용하여 분류자의 정확률을 측정하였다.