Malware detection for mobile devices

• Main Author: Chia, Jia Hong
• Other Authors: Lin Shang Wei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Document and text processing
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70208
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mobile devices have increasingly become targets for malware due to the lucrative rewards for user's personal information. As such, malware detection and classification tools are valuable and sought after by many agencies. This report aims to discuss an automated system for extracting learning features to detect and classify malware that uses the native library to target the Android operating system. The report will also present a parser to extract the sequence of API calls to depict the behavior of a given application. Through the utilization of a reverse engineering tool and a disassembler, the extracted features can be used to classify malware with the use of Machine Learning Technique