Delving into Android Malware Families with a Novel Neural Projection Method. (2nd June 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vega Vega, Rafael; Quintián, Héctor; Cambra, Carlos; Basurto, Nuño; Herrero, Álvaro; Calvo-Rolle, José Luis
• Other Names: Krzemień Alicja Guest Editor.
• Is Part Of: Complexity. Volume 2019(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-06-02
• Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems -- Periodicals; Complexity (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 003
• DOI: 10.1155/2019/6101697
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2787

Abstract

Abstract : Present research proposes the application of unsupervised and supervised machine-learning techniques to characterize Android malware families. More precisely, a novel unsupervised neural-projection method for dimensionality-reduction, namely, Beta Hebbian Learning (BHL), is applied to visually analyze such malware. Additionally, well-known supervised Decision Trees (DTs) are also applied for the first time in order to improve characterization of such families and compare the original features that are identified as the most important ones. The proposed techniques are validated when facing real-life Android malware data by means of the well-known and publicly available Malgenome dataset. Obtained results support the proposed approach, confirming the validity of BHL and DTs to gain deep knowledge on Android malware.