Automated static code analysis for classifying android applications using machine learning

Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 329-333

  Shabtai, Asaf ^a   Fledel, Yuval ^a   Elovici, Yuval ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Android; Machine learning; Malware; Mobile devices; Security; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; APPLICATION FILES; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FILE TYPES; MACHINE LEARNING; MALWARES; SECURITY; STATIC CODE ANALYSIS; STATIC FEATURES; TEST COLLECTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER CRIME; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; ROBOTS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951646815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIS.2010.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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