Amel Ksibi^1,*, Mohammed Zakariah², Latifah Almuqren¹, Ala Saleh Alluhaidan¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.82, No.3, pp. 4093-4116, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.059615 - 06 March 2025

Abstract The analysis of Android malware shows that this threat is constantly increasing and is a real threat to mobile devices since traditional approaches, such as signature-based detection, are no longer effective due to the continuously advancing level of sophistication. To resolve this problem, efficient and flexible malware detection tools are needed. This work examines the possibility of employing deep CNNs to detect Android malware by transforming network traffic into image data representations. Moreover, the dataset used in this study is the CIC-AndMal2017, which contains 20,000 instances of network traffic across five distinct malware categories: a.… More >

Le Duc Thuan^1,2,*, Pham Van Huong², Hoang Van Hiep¹, Nguyen Kim Khanh¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.3, pp. 2741-2759, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033420 - 21 December 2022

Abstract Android malware has exploded in popularity in recent years, due to the platform’s dominance of the mobile market. With the advancement of deep learning technology, numerous deep learning-based works have been proposed for the classification of Android malware. Deep learning technology is designed to handle a large amount of raw and continuous data, such as image content data. However, it is incompatible with discrete features, i.e., features gathered from multiple sources. Furthermore, if the feature set is already well-extracted and sparsely distributed, this technology is less effective than traditional machine learning. On the other hand,… More >

Pagnchakneat C. Ouk¹, Wooguil Pak^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 381-398, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024540 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Although Android becomes a leading operating system in market, Android users suffer from security threats due to malwares. To protect users from the threats, the solutions to detect and identify the malware variant are essential. However, modern malware evades existing solutions by applying code obfuscation and native code. To resolve this problem, we introduce an ensemble-based malware classification algorithm using malware family grouping. The proposed family grouping algorithm finds the optimal combination of families belonging to the same group while the total number of families is fixed to the optimal total number. It also adopts… More >