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String-based Malware Detection for Android Environments

Martín, Alejandro; Menéndez, Héctor D; Camacho, David; (2016) String-based Malware Detection for Android Environments. In: Badica, Costin and Seghrouchni, Amal El Fallah and Beynier, Aurélie and Camacho, David and Herpson, Cédric and Hindriks, Koen and Novais, Paulo, (eds.) Intelligent Distributed Computing X. IDC 2016. (pp. pp. 99-108). Springer: Cham, Switzerland. Green open access

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Abstract

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,compromising more devices everyday. The commercial solutions that aims to fight against this malware are based on signature methodologies whose detection ratio is low. Furthermore,these engines can be easily defeated by obfuscation techniques,which 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,in order to provide a scalable solution based on machine learning. In order to evaluate the performance of this approach,we carry out our experiments using 5000 malware and 5000 benign-ware,and compare the results with 56 Anti-Virus Engines from VirusTotal.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: String-based Malware Detection for Android Environments
Event: 10th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2016
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-48828-8
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48829-5_10
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48829-5_10
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555157
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