Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification

Android is the most dominant operating system in the mobile market and the number of Android users is increasing year by year. Malware authors use android market as a hub for malicious apps and spread malware to users with the intention to threaten privacy; and this has remained undetected due to th...

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Main Authors: Rahiwan Nazar, Romli, Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli, Mohd Zamri, Osman
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Language:English
Published: JATIT 2019
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/1/Maldroid-%20attribute%20selection%20analysis%20for%20malware%20classification.pdf
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author Rahiwan Nazar, Romli
Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli
Mohd Zamri, Osman
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Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli
Mohd Zamri, Osman
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description Android is the most dominant operating system in the mobile market and the number of Android users is increasing year by year. Malware authors use android market as a hub for malicious apps and spread malware to users with the intention to threaten privacy; and this has remained undetected due to the weakness in signature-based detection. A major problem with malware detection is the existence of numerous features in malware code and the need to look at the relevant features in malware analysis. As a result, applying any security solution in malware analysis is considered inefficient because mobile devices have limited resources in terms of its memory, processor and storage. Hence, the objective of this paper is to find the most effective and efficient attribute selection and classification algorithm in malware detection. Moreover, in order to get the best combination between attribute selection and classification algorithm, eight attributes selection and seven categories machine learning algorithm are applied in this study. The experiment evaluated 8000 real data samples and the result showed that InfoGainEval and KNN algorithm are the most selected in attribute selection and classification process.
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spelling ump-380942023-07-20T03:28:26Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/ Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification Rahiwan Nazar, Romli Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli Mohd Zamri, Osman QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software T Technology (General) Android is the most dominant operating system in the mobile market and the number of Android users is increasing year by year. Malware authors use android market as a hub for malicious apps and spread malware to users with the intention to threaten privacy; and this has remained undetected due to the weakness in signature-based detection. A major problem with malware detection is the existence of numerous features in malware code and the need to look at the relevant features in malware analysis. As a result, applying any security solution in malware analysis is considered inefficient because mobile devices have limited resources in terms of its memory, processor and storage. Hence, the objective of this paper is to find the most effective and efficient attribute selection and classification algorithm in malware detection. Moreover, in order to get the best combination between attribute selection and classification algorithm, eight attributes selection and seven categories machine learning algorithm are applied in this study. The experiment evaluated 8000 real data samples and the result showed that InfoGainEval and KNN algorithm are the most selected in attribute selection and classification process. JATIT 2019 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/1/Maldroid-%20attribute%20selection%20analysis%20for%20malware%20classification.pdf Rahiwan Nazar, Romli and Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli and Mohd Zamri, Osman (2019) Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 97 (20). pp. 2419-2429. ISSN 1992-8645 (print); 817-3195 (online). (Published) http://www.jatit.org/volumes/Vol97No20/15Vol97No20.pdf
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
Rahiwan Nazar, Romli
Mohamad Fadli, Zolkipli
Mohd Zamri, Osman
Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title_full Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title_fullStr Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title_full_unstemmed Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title_short Maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
title_sort maldroid- attribute selection analysis for malware classification
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/38094/1/Maldroid-%20attribute%20selection%20analysis%20for%20malware%20classification.pdf