DroidExaminer: An Android Malware Hybrid Detection System Based on Ensemble Learning

Abstract

<p>Android is an open-source mobile operating system, with more than 70% of the mobile market share, widely popular on various intelligent devices. At the same time, the number of new malicious applications keeps increasing every year. In this paper, we first discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various detection methods for malicious software. A single detection method can only cover specific types of malware. Therefore, we propose a system that combines static structural analysis and dynamic detection of malware. This system has dual detection capability, which consists of a client and a server. The client is a lightweight Android application that is used to obtain the relevant data information of the installation package. The server is responsible for static analysis of APK and dynamic running of monitoring logs to get the relevant feature information. Based on the feature information, the Bagging algorithm of ensemble learning is adopted, and the decision tree and random forest are combined to identify the malware accurately. We collected 4210 Android software samples, with malicious apps accounting for about 20% of the total. Cross-testing of malware detection on this sample set showed that DroidExaminer achieved approximately 96% accuracy in detecting malware. It can resist confusion and conversion techniques, and the test performance overhead is less. In addition, DroidExaminer can alert the user to the details of malware intrusion so that the user can prevent malware intrusion.</p> <p> </p>