Title
Evaluation of machine learning classifiers for mobile malware detection.
Abstract
Mobile devices have become a significant part of people’s lives, leading to an increasing number of users involved with such technology. The rising number of users invites hackers to generate malicious applications. Besides, the security of sensitive data available on mobile devices is taken lightly. Relying on currently developed approaches is not sufficient, given that intelligent malware keeps modifying rapidly and as a result becomes more difficult to detect. In this paper, we propose an alternative solution to evaluating malware detection using the anomaly-based approach with machine learning classifiers. Among the various network traffic features, the four categories selected are basic information, content based, time based and connection based. The evaluation utilizes two datasets: public (i.e. MalGenome) and private (i.e. self-collected). Based on the evaluation results, both the Bayes network and random forest classifiers produced more accurate readings, with a 99.97 % true-positive rate (TPR) as opposed to the multi-layer perceptron with only 93.03 % on the MalGenome dataset. However, this experiment revealed that the k-nearest neighbor classifier efficiently detected the latest Android malware with an 84.57 % true-positive rate higher than other classifiers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s00500-014-1511-6
soft computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Intrusion detection system, Machine learning, Android malware detection, Anomaly based, Mobile device
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1433-7479
51
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.36
44
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fairuz Amalina Narudin1511.36
Ali Feizollah21535.99
Nor Badrul Anuar363536.94
Abdullah Gani4188791.22