Research Article

AFWDroid: Deep Feature Extraction and Weighting for Android Malware Detection

Volume: 12 Number: 2 March 30, 2021
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AFWDroid: Deep Feature Extraction and Weighting for Android Malware Detection

Abstract

Android malware detection is a critical and important problem that must be solved for a widely used operating system. Conventional machine learning techniques first extract some features from applications, then create classifiers to distinguish between malicious and benign applications. Most of the studies available today ignore the weighting of the obtained features. To overcome this problem, this study proposes a new software detection method based on weighting the data in feature vectors to be used in classification. To this end, firstly, the manifest file was read from the Android application package. Different features such as activities, services, permissions were extracted from the file, and for classification, a selection was made among these features. The parameters obtained as a result of selection were optimized by the deep neural network model. Studies revealed that through feature selection and weighting, better performance values could be achieved and more competitive results could be obtained in weight-sensitive classification.

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Thanks

We would like to thank Drebin [18] and Genome [19] projects for providing malicious datasets free of charge and for their valuable contributions to the conduct of the study.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

March 30, 2021

Submission Date

February 5, 2021

Acceptance Date

March 1, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 12 Number: 2

IEEE
[1]R. S. Arslan, E. Ölmez, and O. Er, “AFWDroid: Deep Feature Extraction and Weighting for Android Malware Detection”, DUJE, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 237–245, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.24012/dumf.875036.

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