Title
DANdroid: A Multi-View Discriminative Adversarial Network for Obfuscated Android Malware Detection
Abstract
We present DANdroid, a novel Android malware detection model using a deep learning Discriminative Adversarial Network (DAN) that classifies both obfuscated and unobfuscated apps as either malicious or benign. Our method, which we empirically demonstrate is robust against a selection of four prevalent and real-world obfuscation techniques, makes three contributions. Firstly, an innovative application of discriminative adversarial learning results in malware feature representations with a strong degree of resilience to the four obfuscation techniques. Secondly, the use of three feature sets; raw opcodes, permissions and API calls, that are combined in a multi-view deep learning architecture to increase this obfuscation resilience. Thirdly, we demonstrate the potential of our model to generalize over rare and future obfuscation methods not seen in training. With an overall dataset of 68,880 obfuscated and unobfuscated malicious and benign samples, our multi-view DAN model achieves an average F-score of 0.973 that compares favourably with the state-of-the-art, despite being exposed to the selected obfuscation methods applied both individually and in combination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3374664.3375746
CODASPY '20: Tenth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy New Orleans LA USA March, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7107-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stuart Millar111.03
Niall McLaughlin211.03
Jesús Martínez del Rincón313612.23
Paul Miller4496.74
Ziming Zhao532230.52