Android malware detection technique via feature analysis

The rapidly increasing popularity of the Android platform has resulted in a significant increase in the number of malware compared to previous years. Since Android offers an open market model, it is an ideal target to launch malware attacks. Due to this problem, a lot of research work has been propo...

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Main Authors: Ng, Ai Ping, Chiew, Kang Leng, Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim, Tiong, Wei King, Sze, San Nah, Nadianatra, binti Musa
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Published: Taylor’s University 2018
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spelling my.unimas.ir.214842022-09-29T02:52:03Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21484/ Android malware detection technique via feature analysis Ng, Ai Ping Chiew, Kang Leng Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim Tiong, Wei King Sze, San Nah Nadianatra, binti Musa T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The rapidly increasing popularity of the Android platform has resulted in a significant increase in the number of malware compared to previous years. Since Android offers an open market model, it is an ideal target to launch malware attacks. Due to this problem, a lot of research work has been proposed to protect users from attacks. However, such protection cannot last long as attackers will usually find ways to defeat protection mechanism. As a result, this paper aims to develop an effective malware detection technique. The proposed method focuses on static analysis approach, which utilizes features from permissions, intents and API calls of an Android application. In order to create a sensitive and representative feature set, the proposed method also uses the correlation-based feature selection method. The final feature set will be fed into the support vector machine to perform the classification. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method achieved reliable detection accuracy at 95% and outperformed the benchmark method Taylor’s University 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21484/1/ANDROID%20MALWARE%20DETECTION%20%20TECHNIQUE%20VIA%20FEATURE%20ANALYSIS%20%20%28abstract%29.pdf Ng, Ai Ping and Chiew, Kang Leng and Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim and Tiong, Wei King and Sze, San Nah and Nadianatra, binti Musa (2018) Android malware detection technique via feature analysis. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, July. pp. 78-90. ISSN 1823-4690 http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/
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topic T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Ng, Ai Ping
Chiew, Kang Leng
Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim
Tiong, Wei King
Sze, San Nah
Nadianatra, binti Musa
Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
description The rapidly increasing popularity of the Android platform has resulted in a significant increase in the number of malware compared to previous years. Since Android offers an open market model, it is an ideal target to launch malware attacks. Due to this problem, a lot of research work has been proposed to protect users from attacks. However, such protection cannot last long as attackers will usually find ways to defeat protection mechanism. As a result, this paper aims to develop an effective malware detection technique. The proposed method focuses on static analysis approach, which utilizes features from permissions, intents and API calls of an Android application. In order to create a sensitive and representative feature set, the proposed method also uses the correlation-based feature selection method. The final feature set will be fed into the support vector machine to perform the classification. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method achieved reliable detection accuracy at 95% and outperformed the benchmark method
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author Ng, Ai Ping
Chiew, Kang Leng
Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim
Tiong, Wei King
Sze, San Nah
Nadianatra, binti Musa
author_facet Ng, Ai Ping
Chiew, Kang Leng
Dayang Hanani, Binti Abang Ibrahim
Tiong, Wei King
Sze, San Nah
Nadianatra, binti Musa
author_sort Ng, Ai Ping
title Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
title_short Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
title_full Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
title_fullStr Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
title_full_unstemmed Android malware detection technique via feature analysis
title_sort android malware detection technique via feature analysis
publisher Taylor’s University
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21484/1/ANDROID%20MALWARE%20DETECTION%20%20TECHNIQUE%20VIA%20FEATURE%20ANALYSIS%20%20%28abstract%29.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21484/
http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/
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