Static detection of Android malware by using permissions and API calls

Patrick P. K. Chan, Wen-Kai Song
2014 2014 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics  
Android is one of the mobile operating system. Rapidly increasing of devices which used android as platform, make the Android is the best target to cybercriminal. Besides, Android offers many applications and these applications can get from other than Google Play. This make the cybercriminal easier develop malware and easily spread the malware to user. Malware can be made by injecting the malicious code into benign applications. Therefore, this research will use static analysis technique.
more » ... analysis technique will extracted the benign and malware application to get their source code. The source code in benign and malware will be compared and categorized into API and manager classes. Then the most frequent API and manager class used in malware will be detected.
doi:10.1109/icmlc.2014.7009096 dblp:conf/icmlc/ChanS14a fatcat:iwwg3vqt25gbzbcp2sekhe3fg4