Attia Qammar¹, Ahmad Karim^1,*, Yasser Alharbi², Mohammad Alsaffar², Abdullah Alharbi²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.43, No.3, pp. 915-930, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.023652 - 09 May 2022

Abstract Smartphone devices particularly Android devices are in use by billions of people everywhere in the world. Similarly, this increasing rate attracts mobile botnet attacks which is a network of interconnected nodes operated through the command and control (C&C) method to expand malicious activities. At present, mobile botnet attacks launched the Distributed denial of services (DDoS) that causes to steal of sensitive data, remote access, and spam generation, etc. Consequently, various approaches are defined in the literature to detect mobile botnet attacks using static or dynamic analysis. In this paper, a novel hybrid model, the combination More >

Ye-Eun Kim¹, Min-Gyu Kim², Hwankuk Kim^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4467-4488, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026581 - 21 April 2022

Abstract As Internet of Things (IoT) devices with security issues are connected to 5G mobile networks, the importance of IoT Botnet detection research in mobile network environments is increasing. However, the existing research focused on AI-based IoT Botnet detection research in wired network environments. In addition, the existing research related to IoT Botnet detection in ML-based mobile network environments have been conducted up to 4G. Therefore, this paper conducts a study on ML-based IoT Botnet traffic detection in the 5G core network. The binary and multiclass classification was performed to compare simple normal/malicious detection and normal/three-type More >

Dongho Lee, Geochang Jeon, Sunjun Lee, Haehyun Cho^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5909-5923, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026395 - 21 April 2022

Abstract The smart phone market is continuously increasing and there are more than 6 billion of smart phone users worldwide with the aid of the 5G technology. Among them Android occupies 87% of the market share. Naturally, the widespread Android smartphones has drawn the attention of the attackers who implement and spread malware. Consequently, currently the number of malware targeting Android mobile phones is ever increasing. Therefore, it is a critical task to find and detect malicious behaviors of malware in a timely manner. However, unfortunately, attackers use a variety of obfuscation techniques for malware to… More >

R Punithavathi¹, K Venkatachalam², Mehedi Masud³, Mohammed A. AlZain⁴, Mohamed Abouhawwash^5,6,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 559-574, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.024715 - 15 April 2022

Abstract The challenges in providing e-health services with the help of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is done by connecting to the smart medical devices. Through IoMT sensor devices/smart devices, physicians share the sensitive information of the patient. However, protecting the patient health care details from malware attack is necessary in this advanced digital scenario. Therefore, it is needed to implement cryptographic algorithm to enhance security, safety, reliability, preventing details from malware attacks and privacy of medical data. Nowadays blockchain has become a prominent technology for storing medical data securely and transmit through IoMT concept. The… More >

Jun-Seob Kim, Ki-Woong Park^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3401-3424, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026621 - 29 March 2022

Abstract A ransomware attack that interrupted the operation of Colonial Pipeline (a large U.S. oil pipeline company), showed that security threats by malware have become serious enough to affect industries and social infrastructure rather than individuals alone. The agents and characteristics of attacks should be identified, and appropriate strategies should be established accordingly in order to respond to such attacks. For this purpose, the first task that must be performed is malware classification. Malware creators are well aware of this and apply various concealment and avoidance techniques, making it difficult to classify malware. This study focuses… More >

Mohammad Hafiz Mohd Yusof^1,*, Abdullah Mohd Zin², Nurhizam Safie Mohd Satar²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 2445-2466, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023571 - 29 March 2022

Abstract Due to polymorphic nature of malware attack, a signature-based analysis is no longer sufficient to solve polymorphic and stealth nature of malware attacks. On the other hand, state-of-the-art methods like deep learning require labelled dataset as a target to train a supervised model. This is unlikely to be the case in production network as the dataset is unstructured and has no label. Hence an unsupervised learning is recommended. Behavioral study is one of the techniques to elicit traffic pattern. However, studies have shown that existing behavioral intrusion detection model had a few issues which had… 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 >

Anwer Mustafa Hilal^1,*, Siwar Ben Haj Hassine², Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte³, Nadhem Nemri², Mohamed K. Nour⁴, Abdelwahed Motwakel¹, Abu Sarwar Zamani¹, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 713-726, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024501 - 24 February 2022

Abstract The development in Information and Communication Technology has led to the evolution of new computing and communication environment. Technological revolution with Internet of Things (IoTs) has developed various applications in almost all domains from health care, education to entertainment with sensors and smart devices. One of the subsets of IoT is Internet of Medical things (IoMT) which connects medical devices, hardware and software applications through internet. IoMT enables secure wireless communication over the Internet to allow efficient analysis of medical data. With these smart advancements and exploitation of smart IoT devices in health care technology… More >

Abdulbasit A. Darem^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 461-479, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023566 - 24 February 2022

Abstract Malicious software (malware) is one of the main cyber threats that organizations and Internet users are currently facing. Malware is a software code developed by cybercriminals for damage purposes, such as corrupting the system and data as well as stealing sensitive data. The damage caused by malware is substantially increasing every day. There is a need to detect malware efficiently and automatically and remove threats quickly from the systems. Although there are various approaches to tackle malware problems, their prevalence and stealthiness necessitate an effective method for the detection and prevention of malware attacks. The More >

Huizhong Sun¹, Guosheng Xu^1,*, Zhimin Wu², Ruijie Quan³

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 585-600, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.023874 - 05 January 2022

Abstract With the rapid development of Android devices, Android is currently one of the most popular mobile operating systems. However, it is also believed to be an entry point of many attack vectors. The existing Android malware detection method does not fare well when dealing with complex and intelligent malware applications, especially those based on feature detection systems which have become increasingly elusive. Therefore, we propose a novel feature selection algorithm called frequency differential selection (FDS) and weight measurement for Android malware detection. The purpose is to solve the shortcomings of the existing feature selection algorithms… More >