Mobile Malware Detection using Op-code Frequency Histograms

Gerardo Canfora, Francesco Mercaldo, Corrado Aaron Visaggio

2015

Abstract

Mobile malware has grown in scale and complexity, as a consequence of the unabated uptake of smartphones worldwide. Malware writers have been developing detection evasion techniques which are rapidly making anti-malware technologies uneffective. In particular, zero-days malware is able to easily pass signature based detection, while dynamic analysis based techniques, which could be more accurate and robust, are too costly or inappropriate to real contexts, especially for reasons related to usability. This paper discusses a technique for discriminating Android malware from trusted applications that does not rely on signature, but on identifying a vector of features obtained from the static analysis of the Android’s Dalvik code. Experimentation accomplished on a sample of 11,200 applications revealed that the proposed technique produces high precision (over 93%) in mobile malware detection, with an accuracy of 95%.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Canfora G., Mercaldo F. and Aaron Visaggio C. (2015). Mobile Malware Detection using Op-code Frequency Histograms . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-117-5, pages 27-38. DOI: 10.5220/0005537800270038

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt15,
author={Gerardo Canfora and Francesco Mercaldo and Corrado Aaron Visaggio},
title={Mobile Malware Detection using Op-code Frequency Histograms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={27-38},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005537800270038},
isbn={978-989-758-117-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015)
TI - Mobile Malware Detection using Op-code Frequency Histograms
SN - 978-989-758-117-5
AU - Canfora G.
AU - Mercaldo F.
AU - Aaron Visaggio C.
PY - 2015
SP - 27
EP - 38
DO - 10.5220/0005537800270038