scholarly journals Dealing with Class Imbalance in Android Malware Detection by Cascading Clustering and Classification

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Andresini ◽  
Annalisa Appice ◽  
Donato Malerba
Keyword(s):  
Malware Detection ◽  
Class Imbalance ◽  
Android Malware ◽  
Android Malware Detection ◽  
Clustering And Classification

scholarly journals A Method for Class-Imbalance Learning in Android Malware Detection

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 3124
Author(s):  
Jun Guan ◽  
Xu Jiang ◽  
Baolei Mao
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Class Imbalance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Minority Class ◽  
Android Malware ◽  
Android Malware Detection ◽  
Imbalance Learning ◽  
Class Imbalance Learning

More and more Android application developers are adopting many different methods against reverse engineering, such as adding a shell, resulting in certain features that cannot be obtained through decompilation, which causes a serious sample imbalance in Android malware detection based on machine learning. Hence, the researchers have focused on how to solve class-imbalance to improve the performance of Android malware detection. However, the disadvantages of the existing class-imbalance learning are mainly the loss of valuable samples and the computational cost. In this paper, we propose a method of Class-Imbalance Learning (CIL), which first selects representative features, uses the clustering K-Means algorithm and under-sampling to retain the important samples of the majority class while reducing the number of samples of the majority class. After that, we use the Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Technique (SMOTE) algorithm to generate minority class samples for data balance, and finally use the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to build a malware detection model. The result of experiments indicates that CIL effectively improves the performance of Android malware detection based on machine learning, especially for class imbalance. Compared with existing class-imbalance learning methods, CIL is also effective for the Machine Learning Repository from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and has better performance in some data sets.

Android Malware Detection Techniques: A Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghna Dhalaria ◽  
Ekta Gandotra
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Android Malware ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Android Malware Detection ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Purpose: This paper provides the basics of Android malware, its evolution and tools and techniques for malware analysis. Its main aim is to present a review of the literature on Android malware detection using machine learning and deep learning and identify the research gaps. It provides the insights obtained through literature and future research directions which could help researchers to come up with robust and accurate techniques for classification of Android malware. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper provides a review of the basics of Android malware, its evolution timeline and detection techniques. It includes the tools and techniques for analyzing the Android malware statically and dynamically for extracting features and finally classifying these using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. Findings: The number of Android users is expanding very fast due to the popularity of Android devices. As a result, there are more risks to Android users due to the exponential growth of Android malware. On-going research aims to overcome the constraints of earlier approaches for malware detection. As the evolving malware are complex and sophisticated, earlier approaches like signature based and machine learning based are not able to identify these timely and accurately. The findings from the review shows various limitations of earlier techniques i.e. requires more detection time, high false positive and false negative rate, low accuracy in detecting sophisticated malware and less flexible. Originality/value: This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive review on the tools and techniques being employed for analysis, classification and identification of Android malicious applications. It includes the timeline of Android malware evolution, tools and techniques for analyzing these statically and dynamically for the purpose of extracting features and finally using these features for their detection and classification using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. On the basis of the detailed literature review, various research gaps are listed. The paper also provides future research directions and insights which could help researchers to come up with innovative and robust techniques for detecting and classifying the Android malware.

Android malware detection with contrasting permission patterns

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Xiong ◽  
Xiaofeng Wang ◽  
Wenjia Niu ◽  
Tianqing Zhu ◽  
Gang Li
Keyword(s):  
Malware Detection ◽  
Android Malware ◽  
Android Malware Detection

scholarly journals AFCGDroid: Deep Learning Based Android Malware Detection Using Attributed Function Call Graphs

2020 ◽  
Vol 1693 ◽  
pp. 012080
Author(s):  
Tong Lu ◽  
Xiaoyuan Liu ◽  
Jingwei Chen ◽  
Naitian Hu ◽  
Bo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Android Malware ◽  
Android Malware Detection ◽  
Function Call ◽  
Call Graphs
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