Analysis of Android Malware Family Characteristic Based on Isomorphism of Sensitive API Call Graph
Title | Analysis of Android Malware Family Characteristic Based on Isomorphism of Sensitive API Call Graph |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Zhou, H., Zhang, W., Wei, F., Chen, Y. |
Conference Name | 2017 IEEE Second International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC) |
Keywords | Algorithm design and analysis, android, Android (operating system), Android Malware family characteristic analysis, Androids, application program interfaces, call graph structures, graph similarity metric, graph theory, Heuristic algorithms, Human Behavior, Humanoid robots, invasive software, Libraries, Malware, malware analysis, malware instances, Metrics, Mobile communication, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, sensitive API call graph, static analysis approach |
Abstract | The analysis of multiple Android malware families indicates malware instances within a common malware family always have similar call graph structures. Based on the isomorphism of sensitive API call graph, we propose a method which is used to construct malware family features via combining static analysis approach with graph similarity metric. The experiment is performed on a malware dataset which contains 1326 malware samples from 16 different malware families. The result shows that the method can differentiate distinct malware family features and divide suspect malware samples into corresponding families with a high accuracy of 96.77% overall and even defend a certain extent of obfuscation. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8005492/ |
DOI | 10.1109/DSC.2017.77 |
Citation Key | zhou_analysis_2017 |
- invasive software
- static analysis approach
- sensitive API call graph
- Resiliency
- resilience
- pubcrawl
- privacy
- Mobile communication
- Metrics
- malware instances
- Malware Analysis
- malware
- Libraries
- Algorithm design and analysis
- Humanoid robots
- Human behavior
- Heuristic algorithms
- graph theory
- graph similarity metric
- call graph structures
- application program interfaces
- Androids
- Android Malware family characteristic analysis
- Android (operating system)
- android