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Bio-inspired Hybrid Intelligent Method for Detecting Android Malware

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Today’s smartphones are capable of doing much more than the previous generation of mobile phones. However this extended range of capabilities is coming together with some new security risks. Also, mobile platforms often contain small, insecure and less well controlled applications from various single developers. Due to the open usage model of the Android market, malicious applications cannot be avoided completely. Especially pirated applications or multimedia content in popular demand, targeting user groups with typically low awareness levels are predestined to spread too many devices before being identified as malware. Generally malware applications utilizing root exploits to escalate their privileges can inject code and place binaries outside applications storage locations. This paper proposes a novel approach, which uses minimum computational power and resources, to indentify Android malware or malicious applications. It is a bio-inspired Hybrid Intelligent Method for Detecting Android Malware (HIMDAM). This approach performs classification by employing Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) in order to properly label malware applications. At the same time, Evolving Spiking Neural Networks (eSNNs) are used to increase the accuracy and generalization of the entire model.

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  1. Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 193 Pandazidou St, 68200, N. Orestiada, Greece

    Konstantinos Demertzis & Lazaros Iliadis

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  1. and Technology, JAIST - Japan Advanced Institute for Sci, Kanazawa, Japan

    Susumu Kunifuji

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George Angelos Papadopoulos

  3. Dept. of Automatic Control & Biom. Eng., AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

    Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski

  4. Systems Res Inst, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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Demertzis, K., Iliadis, L. (2016). Bio-inspired Hybrid Intelligent Method for Detecting Android Malware. In: Kunifuji, S., Papadopoulos, G., Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk  , J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27478-2_20

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