PACER: Platform for Android Malware Classification, Performance Evaluation and Threat Reporting

Ajit Kumar, Vinti Agarwal, Shishir Kumar Shandilya, Andrii Shalaginov, Saket Upadhyay and Bhawna Yadav
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Ajit Kumar: School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University Bhopal, Bhopal 466114, India
Vinti Agarwal: Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
Shishir Kumar Shandilya: School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University Bhopal, Bhopal 466114, India
Andrii Shalaginov: Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2815 Gjøvik, Norway
Saket Upadhyay: School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University Bhopal, Bhopal 466114, India
Bhawna Yadav: School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University Bhopal, Bhopal 466114, India

Future Internet, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: Android malware has become the topmost threat for the ubiquitous and useful Android ecosystem. Multiple solutions leveraging big data and machine-learning capabilities to detect Android malware are being constantly developed. Too often, these solutions are either limited to research output or remain isolated and incapable of reaching end users or malware researchers. An earlier work named PACE (Platform for Android Malware Classification and Performance Evaluation), was introduced as a unified solution to offer open and easy implementation access to several machine-learning-based Android malware detection techniques, that makes most of the research reproducible in this domain. The benefits of PACE are offered through three interfaces: Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API), Web Interface, and Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interface. These multiple interfaces enable users with different expertise such as IT administrators, security practitioners, malware researchers, etc. to use their offered services. In this paper, we propose PACER (Platform for Android Malware Classification, Performance Evaluation, and Threat Reporting), which extends PACE by adding threat intelligence and reporting functionality for the end-user device through the ADB interface. A prototype of the proposed platform is introduced, and our vision is that it will help malware analysts and end users to tackle challenges and reduce the amount of manual work.

Keywords: android malware; machine learning; static and dynamic features; cyber threat intelligence; threat report generation; reproducible research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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