?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=String-based+Malware+Detection+for+Android+Environments&rft.creator=Mart%C3%ADn%2C+Alejandro&rft.creator=Men%C3%A9ndez%2C+H%C3%A9ctor+D&rft.creator=Camacho%2C+David&rft.description=Android+platforms+are+known+as+the+less+security+smartphone+devices.+The+increasing+number+of+malicious+apps+published+on+Android+markets+suppose+an+important+threat+to+users+sensitive+data%2Ccompromising+more+devices+everyday.+The+commercial+solutions+that+aims+to+fight+against+this+malware+are+based+on+signature+methodologies+whose+detection+ratio+is+low.+Furthermore%2Cthese+engines+can+be+easily+defeated+by+obfuscation+techniques%2Cwhich+are+extremely+common+in+app+plagiarism.+This+work+aims+to+improve+malware+detection+using+only+the+binary+information+and+the+permissions+that+are+normally+used+by+the+anti-virus+engines%2Cin+order+to+provide+a+scalable+solution+based+on+machine+learning.+In+order+to+evaluate+the+performance+of+this+approach%2Cwe+carry+out+our+experiments+using+5000+malware+and+5000+benign-ware%2Cand+compare+the+results+with+56+Anti-Virus+Engines+from+VirusTotal.&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.contributor=Badica%2C+Costin&rft.contributor=Seghrouchni%2C+Amal+El+Fallah&rft.contributor=Beynier%2C+Aur%C3%A9lie&rft.contributor=Camacho%2C+David&rft.contributor=Herpson%2C+C%C3%A9dric&rft.contributor=Hindriks%2C+Koen&rft.contributor=Novais%2C+Paulo&rft.date=2016-10-08&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Badica%2C+Costin+and+Seghrouchni%2C+Amal+El+Fallah+and+Beynier%2C+Aur%C3%A9lie+and+Camacho%2C+David+and+Herpson%2C+C%C3%A9dric+and+Hindriks%2C+Koen+and+Novais%2C+Paulo%2C+(eds.)+Intelligent+Distributed+Computing+X.+IDC+2016.++(pp.+pp.+99-108).++Springer%3A+Cham%2C+Switzerland.+(2016)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1555157%2F1%2FMenendez%2520Benito_string%2520based%2520malware%2520detection_.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1555157%2F&rft.rights=open