Android malware detection through generative adversarial networks

ORCID Identifiers

0000-0003-3484-9793

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Mobile and cell devices have empowered end users to tweak their cell phones more than ever and introduce applications just as we used to with personal computers. Android likewise portrays an uprise in mobile devices and personal digital assistants. It is an open-source versatile platform fueling incalculable hardware units, tablets, televisions, auto amusement frameworks, digital boxes, and so forth. In a generally shorter life cycle, Android also has additionally experienced a mammoth development in application malware. In this context, a toweringly large measure of strategies has been proposed in theory for the examination and detection of these harmful applications for the Android platform. These strategies attempt to both statically reverse engineer the application and elicit meaningful information as features manually or dynamically endeavor to quantify the runtime behavior of the application to identify malevolence. The overgrowing nature of Android malware has enormously debilitated the support of protective measures, which leaves the platforms such as Android feeble for novel and mysterious malware. Machine learning is being utilized for malware diagnosis in mobile phones as a common practice and in Android distinctively. It is important to specify here that these systems, however, utilize and adapt the learning-based techniques, yet the overhead of hand-created features limits ease of use of such methods in reality by an end user. As a solution to this issue, we mean to make utilization of deep learning–based algorithms as the fundamental arrangement for malware examination on Android. Deep learning turns up as another way of research that has bid the scientific community in the fields of vision, speech, and natural language processing. Of late, models set up on deep convolution networks outmatched techniques utilizing handmade descriptive features at various undertakings. Likewise, our proposed technique to cater malware detection is by design a deep learning model making use of generative adversarial networks, which is responsible to detect the Android malware via famous two-player game theory for a rock-paper-scissor problem. We have used three state-of-the-art datasets and augmented a large-scale dataset of opcodes extracted from the Android Package Kit bytecode and used in our experiments. Our technique achieves F1 score of 99% with a receiver operating characteristic of 99% on the bytecode dataset. This proves the usefulness of our technique and that it can generally be adopted in real life.

ISSN

2161-3915

Publisher

Wiley Blackwell

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Android (operating system), Cellular telephones, Deep learning, Digital devices, Game theory, Large dataset, Learning algorithms, Life cycle, Malware, Natural language processing systems, Open systems, Personal digital assistants, Adversarial networks, Android platforms, Large-scale dataset, NAtural language processing, Protective measures, Receiver operating characteristics, Scientific community, Shorter life cycles, Mobile security

Scopus ID

85069892612

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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