Dendroid: A text mining approach to analyzing and classifying code structures in Android malware families

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 1, 2014, Pages 1104-1117

  Suarez Tangil, Guillermo ^a   Tapiador, Juan E ^a   Peris Lopez, Pedro ^a   Blasco, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Android OS; Information retrieval; Malware analysis; Smartphones; Software similarity and classification; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ANDROID OSSA; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INTELLIGENT INSTRUMENT; MALWARE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE SIMILARITIES; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ROBOTS; SMARTPHONES; VECTOR SPACES;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84888348488     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.07.106     Document Type: Article

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