Delving into Android Malware Families with a Novel Neural Projection Method

Rafael Vega Vega, Héctor Quintián, Carlos Cambra, Nuño Basurto, Álvaro Herrero and José Luis Calvo-Rolle

Complexity, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-10

Abstract:

Present research proposes the application of unsupervised and supervised machine-learning techniques to characterize Android malware families. More precisely, a novel unsupervised neural-projection method for dimensionality-reduction, namely, Beta Hebbian Learning (BHL), is applied to visually analyze such malware. Additionally, well-known supervised Decision Trees (DTs) are also applied for the first time in order to improve characterization of such families and compare the original features that are identified as the most important ones. The proposed techniques are validated when facing real-life Android malware data by means of the well-known and publicly available Malgenome dataset. Obtained results support the proposed approach, confirming the validity of BHL and DTs to gain deep knowledge on Android malware.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/6101697

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