TY - GEN
T1 - Feature selection and ensemble of classifiers for Android malware detection
AU - Coronado-De-Alba, Lilian D.
AU - Rodriguez-Mota, Abraham
AU - Escamilla-Ambrosio, Ponciano J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In recent years the Android Operating System (OS) has become one of the major stakeholders in the smartphone market. The growing consumers' adoption of Android has also brought many security concerns as the number of malicious applications targeting this OS has dramatically increased. Current malware detection methods include static and dynamic analysis. In this work, a set of results obtained for malware classification through machine learning techniques are presented. Although, the presented approach analyzes data obtained through static analysis techniques as other approaches, it differs from previous works by presenting detailed descriptions of the data sets characteristics, feature extraction and selection processes, the size of the training sample set, cross validation and validation sets are specified, providing explicit evidence for classification improvement. Even more, a comparative analysis of various ensembles is presented, having as objective to determine the best combination of classifiers based on the evaluation of the classification results.
AB - In recent years the Android Operating System (OS) has become one of the major stakeholders in the smartphone market. The growing consumers' adoption of Android has also brought many security concerns as the number of malicious applications targeting this OS has dramatically increased. Current malware detection methods include static and dynamic analysis. In this work, a set of results obtained for malware classification through machine learning techniques are presented. Although, the presented approach analyzes data obtained through static analysis techniques as other approaches, it differs from previous works by presenting detailed descriptions of the data sets characteristics, feature extraction and selection processes, the size of the training sample set, cross validation and validation sets are specified, providing explicit evidence for classification improvement. Even more, a comparative analysis of various ensembles is presented, having as objective to determine the best combination of classifiers based on the evaluation of the classification results.
KW - Android
KW - Classification
KW - Feature Selection
KW - Machine Learning
KW - Malware Detection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011958775&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LATINCOM.2016.7811605
DO - 10.1109/LATINCOM.2016.7811605
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85011958775
T3 - 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2016
BT - 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2016
A2 - Velasquez-Villada, Carlos E.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2016
Y2 - 15 November 2016 through 17 November 2016
ER -