Title
Machine learning-assisted signature and heuristic-based detection of malwares in Android devices.
Abstract
Malware detection is an important factor in the security of the smart devices. However, currently utilized signature-based methods cannot provide accurate detection of zero-day attacks and polymorphic viruses. In this context, an efficient hybrid framework is presented for detection of malware in Android Apps. The proposed framework considers both signature and heuristic-based analysis for Android Apps. We have reverse engineered the Android Apps to extract manifest files, and binaries, and employed state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to efficiently detect malwares. For this purpose, a rigorous set of experiments are performed using various classifiers such as SVM, Decision Tree, W-J48 and KNN. It has been observed that SVM in case of binaries and KNN in case of manifest.xml files are the most suitable options in robustly detecting the malware in Android devices. The proposed framework is tested on benchmark datasets and results show improved accuracy in malware detection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.11.028
Computers & Electrical Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Malware detection,Hybrid approach,Android applications,Security,Heuristic analysis
Decision tree,Heuristic,Android (operating system),Computer science,Reverse engineering,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Malware,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
69
0045-7906
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
17
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zahoor ur Rehman1243.88
Sidra Nasim Khan230.41
Khan Muhammad398667.67
Jong Weon Lee47312.70
Zhihan Lu51515136.60
Sung Wook Baik696057.77
Peer Azmat Shah7335.33
Khalid M. Awan8215.17
Irfan Mehmood952230.84