An in-depth analysis of Android malware using hybrid techniques

Kabakus A. T., DOĞRU İ. A.

DIGITAL INVESTIGATION, cilt.24, ss.25-33, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 24
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.diin.2018.01.001
  • Dergi Adı: DIGITAL INVESTIGATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.25-33
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Android malware, Android, Play store, Mobile security, Malware analysis
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Android malware is widespread despite the effort provided by Google in order to prevent it from the official application market, Play Store. Two techniques namely static and dynamic analysis are commonly used to detect malicious applications in Android ecosystem. Both of these techniques have their own advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid Android malware analysis approach namely mad4a which uses the advantages of both static and dynamic analysis techniques. The aim of this study is revealing some unknown characteristics of Android malware through the used various analysis techniques. As the result of static and dynamic analysis on the widely used Android application datasets, digital investigators are informed about some underestimated characteristics of Android malware. (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.