• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.17-22
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• 2021

The attack trend on end-users via mobile devices is increasing in both the danger level and the number of attacks. Especially, mobile devices using the Android operating system are being recognized as increasingly being exploited and attacked strongly. In addition, one of the recent attack methods on the Android operating system is to take advantage of Android Package Kit (APK) files. Therefore, the problem of early detecting and warning attacks on mobile devices using the Android operating system through the APK file is very necessary today. This paper proposes to use the method of analyzing abnormal behavior of APK files and use it as a basis to conclude about signs of malware attacking the Android operating system. In order to achieve this purpose, we propose 2 main tasks: i) analyzing and extracting abnormal behavior of APK files; ii) detecting malware in APK files based on behavior analysis techniques using machine learning or deep learning algorithms. The difference between our research and other related studies is that instead of focusing on analyzing and extracting typical features of APK files, we will try to analyze and enumerate all the features of the APK file as the basis for classifying malicious APK files and clean APK files.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.2736-2754
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• 2015

Android dominates the mobile operating system market, which stimulates the rapid spread of mobile malware. It is quite challenging to detect mobile malware. System call sequence analysis is widely used to identify malware. However, the malware detection accuracy of existing approaches is not satisfactory since they do not consider correlation of system calls in the sequence. In this paper, we propose a new scheme called Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) on Co-occurrence Matrices Droid (ANNCMDroid), using co-occurrence matrices to mine correlation of system calls. Our key observation is that correlation of system calls is significantly different between malware and benign software, which can be accurately expressed by co-occurrence matrices, and ANNs can effectively identify anomaly in the co-occurrence matrices. Thus at first we calculate co-occurrence matrices from the system call sequences and then convert them into vectors. Finally, these vectors are fed into ANN to detect malware. We demonstrate the effectiveness of ANNCMDroid by real experiments. Experimental results show that only 4 applications among 594 evaluated benign applications are falsely detected as malware, and only 18 applications among 614 evaluated malicious applications are not detected. As a result, ANNCMDroid achieved an F-Score of 0.981878, which is much higher than other methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.617-623
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• 2018

This study focuses on detection of malicious code through AndroidManifest permissoion feature extracted based on Android static analysis. Features are built on the permissions of AndroidManifest, which can save resources and time for analysis. Malicious app detection model consisted of SVM (support vector machine), NB (Naive Bayes), Gradient Boosting Classifier (GBC) and Logistic Regression model which learned 1,500 normal apps and 500 malicious apps and 98% detection rate. In addition, malicious app family identification is implemented by multi-classifiers model using algorithm SVM, GPC (Gaussian Process Classifier) and GBC (Gradient Boosting Classifier). The learned family identification machine learning model identified 92% of malicious app families.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.433-441
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• 2021

Android applications are released across various categories, including productivity apps and games, and users are exposed to various applications and even malware depending on their usage patterns. On the other hand, most analysis engines train using existing datasets and do not reflect user patterns even if periodic updates are made. Thus, the detection rate for known malware is high, while types of malware such as adware are difficult to detect. In addition, existing engines incur increased service provider costs due to the cost of server farm, and the user layer suffers from problems where availability and real-timeness are not guaranteed. To address these problems, we propose an analysis system that performs on-device malware detection through transfer learning, which requires only one-time communication with the server. In addition, The system has a complete process on the device, including decompiler, which can distribute the load of the server system. As an evaluation result, it shows 90.3% accuracy without transfer learning, while the model transferred with adware catergories shows 95.1% of accuracy, which is 4.8% higher compare to original model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.510-512
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• 2014

Malware Analysis tools are being main topic research for many mobile security companies, in this survey, we are trying to go through the most popular tools used to find out the malicious codes and suspected android programs through reverse engineering process. There are so many malware tools have been made and implemented and some of them are efficient enough and others are quite slow and consuming high processing, however we are going to compare briefly some of them.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1235-1242
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• 2019

While several machine learning technique has been implemented for Android malware categorization, there is still difficulty in analyzing due to overfitting problem and including of un-executable code, etc. In this paper, we introduce our implemented tool to address these problems. Tool is consists of approximately 1,500 lines of Java code, and perform Flow analysis on set of APIs, or on control flow graph. Our tool groups all the API by its relationship and only perform analysis on actually executing code. Using our tool, we grouped 39032 APIs into 4972 groups, and 12123 groups with result of including class names. We collected 7,000 APKs from 7 families and evaluated our feature reduction technique, and we also reduced features again with selecting APIs that have frequency more than 20%. We finally reduced features to 263-numbers of feature for our collected APKs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.617-624
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• 2014

Smart phone usage has increased exponentially and open source based Android OS occupy significant market share. However, various malicious applications that use the characteristic of Android threaten users. In this paper, we construct an efficient malicious application detector by using the principle component analysis and the incremental k nearest neighbor algorithm, which consider an required permission, of Android applications. The cross validation is exploited in order to find a critical parameter of the algorithm. For the performance evaluation of our approach, we simulate a real data set of Contagio Mobile.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.47-54
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• 2015

The popularity and adoption of smart-phones has greatly stimulated the spread of mobile malware, especially on the popular platforms such as Android. The fluidity of application markets complicate smart-phone security. There is a pressing need to develop effective solutions. Although recent efforts have shed light on particular security issues, there remains little insight into broader security characteristics of smart-phone application. Now, the analytical methods used mainly are the reverse engineering-based analysis and the sandbox-based analysis. Such methods are can be analyzed in detail. but, they take a lot of time and have a one-time payout. In this study, we develop a system to monitor that mobile application permissions at application update. We had to overcome a one-time analysis. This study is a service-based malware analysis, It will be based will be based on the mobile security study.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.8
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• pp.1551-1559
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• 2015

Recently, the performance of smart devices is almost similar to that of the existing PCs, thus the users of smart devices can perform similar works such as messengers, SNSs(Social Network Services), smart banking, etc. originally performed in PC environment using smart devices. Although the development of smart devices has led to positive impacts, it has caused negative changes such as an increase in security threat aimed at mobile environment. Specifically, the threats of mobile devices, such as leaking private information, generating unfair billing and performing DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attacks has continuously increased. Over 80% of the mobile devices use android platform, thus, the number of damage caused by mobile malware in android platform is also increasing. In this paper, we propose android based malware detection mechanism using time-series analysis, which is one of statistical-based detection methods.We use auto-regressive moving-average model which is extracting accurate predictive values based on existing data among time-series model. We also use fast and exact malware detection method by extracting possible malware data through Z-Score. We validate the proposed methods through the experiment results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.3756-3777
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• 2019

Recent internet development is helping malware researchers to generate malicious code variants through automated tools. Due to this reason, the number of malicious variants is increasing day by day. Consequently, the performance improvement in malware analysis is the critical requirement to stop the rapid expansion of malware. The existing research proved that the similarities among malware variants could be used for detection and family classification. In this paper, a Cross-Platform Malware Variant Classification System (CP-MVCS) proposed that converted malware binary into a grayscale image. Further, malicious features extracted from the grayscale image through Combined SIFT-GIST Malware (CSGM) description. Later, these features used to identify the relevant family of malware variant. CP-MVCS reduced computational time and improved classification accuracy by using CSGM feature description along machine learning classification. The experiment performed on four publically available datasets of Windows OS and Android OS. The experimental results showed that the computation time and malware classification accuracy of CP-MVCS was higher than traditional methods. The evaluation also showed that CP-MVCS was not only differentiated families of malware variants but also identified both malware and benign samples in mix fashion efficiently.