Detecting Malware for Android Platform: An SVM-Based Approach

In recent years, Android has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems because of numerous mobile applications (apps) it provides. However, the malicious Android applications (malware) downloaded from third-party markets have significantly threatened users´ security and privacy, and most of them remain undetected due to the lack of efficient and accurate malware detection techniques. In this paper, we study a malware detection scheme for Android platform using an SVM-based approach, which integrates both risky permission combinations and vulnerable API calls and use them as features in the SVM algorithm. To validate the performance of the proposed approach, extensive experiments have been conducted, which show that the proposed malware detection scheme is able to identify malicious Android applications effectively and efficiently.