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Mobile devices are everywhere nowadays, such as mobile phone, mobile tablets. Meanwhile, various malwares on mobile terminals are emerging one after another, especially on the open-source Android system. Traditional detection schemes are based on static method or dynamic method. In recent years, industry and academia have paid close attention to the detection mechanisms using network behaviors to identify the malware. In this paper, we design a real-time Android malware detection system based on network traffic analysis, which includes a training model and a real-time detection model. By training over the malware traffic using the training model, we find that 76.33 % DNS queries and 45.39 % HTTP requests are all malicious. We set up a real-time scanning service based on the malicious URLs that are captured in the training model, which is the core of the real-time detection model. By performing malware detection using the established real-time detection model, we show that the detection rate using the real-time scanning service is much higher than the integrated service. Meanwhile, the detection rate will further improve by integrating more third-party scanning services into our system.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.61472164 and No.61203105,the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grants No.ZR2014JL042 and No.ZR2012FM010.
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Han, H., Chen, Z., Yan, Q., Peng, L., Zhang, L. (2015). A Real-time Android Malware Detection System Based on Network Traffic Analysis. In: Wang, G., Zomaya, A., Martinez, G., Li, K. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27137-8_37
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