scholarly journals K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR CLASSIFIER USAGE FOR PERMISSION BASED MALWARE DETECTION IN ANDROID

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Recep Sinan ARSLAN ◽  
Ahmet Haşim Yurttakal

ABSTRACT Android application platform is making rapid progress in these days. This development has made it the target of malicious application developers. This situation provides a numerical increase in malware apps, diversity in techniques, and rise of damage. Therefore, it is very critical to detect these software and escalation the security of mobile users. Static and dynamic analysis, behaviour scrutiny, machine learning methods are used to ensure security. In this study, K-nearest Neighbourhood (KNN) classifier, one of the machine learning methods, is used. Thus, it is aimed to detect malignant mobile software successfully and quickly. The tests is conducted with dataset includes 492 malware and 697 benign applications. In the proposed algorithm, neighbour number 5 and distance metric is preferred as Minkowski. 80% of dataset randomly selected is reserved for training and 20% for testing. As a result, while 94.1% accuracy is achieved, precision 91.2%, recall 92.7% recall and f1-measure is 92.4%. The high value obtained in f1-measure shows that the proposed model is successful in detecting both malware and benevolent software. The success of using KNN algorithm in classification of malicious apps in the Android has been demonstrated.

Author(s):  
Matheus del Valle ◽  
Kleber Stancari ◽  
Pedro Arthur Augusto de Castro ◽  
Moises Oliveira dos Santos ◽  
Denise Maria Zezell

ACS Omega ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 15837-15849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Yujia Tian ◽  
Zijian Qin ◽  
Aixia Yan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e0166898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique A. Ladds ◽  
Adam P. Thompson ◽  
David J. Slip ◽  
David P. Hocking ◽  
Robert G. Harcourt

Author(s):  
Ravi Singh ◽  
Ankit Ganeshpurkar ◽  
Powsali Ghosh ◽  
Ankit Vyankatrao Pokle ◽  
Devendra Kumar ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (3) ◽  
pp. 4209-4228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting-Yun Cheng ◽  
Christopher J Conselice ◽  
Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca ◽  
Nan Li ◽  
Asa F L Bluck ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT There are several supervised machine learning methods used for the application of automated morphological classification of galaxies; however, there has not yet been a clear comparison of these different methods using imaging data, or an investigation for maximizing their effectiveness. We carry out a comparison between several common machine learning methods for galaxy classification [Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), K-nearest neighbour, logistic regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, and Neural Networks] by using Dark Energy Survey (DES) data combined with visual classifications from the Galaxy Zoo 1 project (GZ1). Our goal is to determine the optimal machine learning methods when using imaging data for galaxy classification. We show that CNN is the most successful method of these ten methods in our study. Using a sample of ∼2800 galaxies with visual classification from GZ1, we reach an accuracy of ∼0.99 for the morphological classification of ellipticals and spirals. The further investigation of the galaxies that have a different ML and visual classification but with high predicted probabilities in our CNN usually reveals the incorrect classification provided by GZ1. We further find the galaxies having a low probability of being either spirals or ellipticals are visually lenticulars (S0), demonstrating that supervised learning is able to rediscover that this class of galaxy is distinct from both ellipticals and spirals. We confirm that ∼2.5 per cent galaxies are misclassified by GZ1 in our study. After correcting these galaxies’ labels, we improve our CNN performance to an average accuracy of over 0.99 (accuracy of 0.994 is our best result).


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