Title
A review on feature selection in mobile malware detection
Abstract
The widespread use of mobile devices in comparison to personal computers has led to a new era of information exchange. The purchase trends of personal computers have started decreasing whereas the shipment of mobile devices is increasing. In addition, the increasing power of mobile devices along with portability characteristics has attracted the attention of users. Not only are such devices popular among users, but they are favorite targets of attackers. The number of mobile malware is rapidly on the rise with malicious activities, such as stealing users data, sending premium messages and making phone call to premium numbers that users have no knowledge. Numerous studies have developed methods to thwart such attacks. In order to develop an effective detection system, we have to select a subset of features from hundreds of available features. In this paper, we studied 100 research works published between 2010 and 2014 with the perspective of feature selection in mobile malware detection. We categorize available features into four groups, namely, static features, dynamic features, hybrid features and applications metadata. Additionally, we discuss datasets used in the recent research studies as well as analyzing evaluation measures utilized.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.diin.2015.02.001
Digital Investigation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile malware,Android,Feature selection,Review paper,Mobile operating system
Mobile technology,Mobile malware,Mobile computing,Mobile search,World Wide Web,Android (operating system),Computer science,Computer security,Mobile device,Software portability,Mobile Web
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
C
1742-2876
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
37
1.03
93
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ali Feizollah11535.99
Nor Badrul Anuar263536.94
Rosli Salleh316011.64
Abdul Wahid422619.29