Title
An Android Malware Detection Approach Using Bayesian Inference
Abstract
Android malware detection has been a popularre search topic due to non-negligible amount of malware targeting the Android operating system. In particular, the naive Bayes generative classifier is a common technique widely adopted in many papers. However, we found that the naive Bayes classifier performs badly in Contagio Malware Dump dataset, which could result from the assumption that no feature dependency exists. In this paper, we propose a lightweight method for Android malware detection, which improves the performance of Bayesian classification on the Contagio Malware Dump data set. It performs static analysis to gather malicious features from an application, and applies principal component analysis to reduce the dependencies among them. With the hidden naive Bayes model, we can infer the identityof the application. In an evaluation with 15,573 normal applications and 3,150 malicious samples, our work detects94.5% of the malware with a false positive rate of 1.0%.The experiment also shows that our approach is feasible on smart phones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CIT.2016.76
2016 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Android Malware Detection,Bayesian Inference,Machine Learning,Static Analysis
False positive rate,Data mining,Android (operating system),Bayesian inference,Naive Bayes classifier,Computer science,Static analysis,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Malware,Machine learning,Bayes' theorem
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-4315-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Che-Hsun Liu100.34
Zhi Jie Zhang200.34
Sheng-De Wang372068.13