Demadroid: Object Reference Graph-Based Malware Detection in Android. (31st May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Huanran; He, Hui; Zhang, Weizhe
• Other Names: Zhang Dafang Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Security and communication networks. Volume 2018(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-05-31
• Subjects: Computer networks -- Security measures -- Periodicals; Computer security -- Periodicals; Cryptography -- Periodicals; 005.805
• DOI: 10.1155/2018/7064131
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1939-0114

Abstract

Abstract : Smartphone usage has been continuously increasing in recent years. In addition, Android devices are widely used in our daily life, becoming the most attractive target for hackers. Therefore, malware analysis of Android platform is in urgent demand. Static analysis and dynamic analysis methods are two classical approaches. However, they also have some drawbacks. Motivated by this, we present Demadroid, a framework to implement the detection of Android malware. We obtain the dynamic information to build Object Reference Graph and propose λ -VF2 algorithm for graph matching. Extensive experiments show that Demadroid can efficiently identify the malicious features of malware. Furthermore, the system can effectively resist obfuscated attacks and the variants of known malware to meet the demand for actual use.