MobSafe: Cloud computing based forensic analysis for massive mobile applications using data mining

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 418-424

  Xu, Jianlin ^a   Yu, Yifan ^a   Chen, Zhen ^a   Cao, Bin ^a   Dong, Wenyu ^a   Guo, Yu ^a   Cao, Junwei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Android platform; Big data; Cloud computing; Forensic analysis; Hadoop distributed file system; Machine learning; Mobile malware detection; Redis key value store

Indexed keywords

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM); BIG DATA; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; COMPUTER FORENSICS; DATA MINING; E-LEARNING; FILE ORGANIZATION; FILTRATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING; MALWARE; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

ANDROID PLATFORMS; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; HADOOP DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS; KEY-VALUE STORES; MOBILE MALWARE;

MOBILE SECURITY;

EID: 84897726157     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/tst.2013.6574680     Document Type: Article

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