Android malware detection: state of the art

Abstract

Android malware is on the rise along with the popularity of Android OS. Malware writers are using novel techniques to create malicious Android applications which severely undermine the capability of traditional malware detectors which are incompetent towards detecting these unknown malicious applications. The features obtained from static and dynamic analysis of Android applications can be used to detect unknown Android malware by using machine learning techniques. This paper presents an analysis of various Android malware detection systems and compares them based on various parameters such as detection technique, analysis method, and features extracted. We were able to find research work in all the Android malware detection techniques which employ machine learning which also highlights the fact that machine learning algorithms are used frequently in this area for detecting Android malware in the wild.