Machine learning for Android malware detection using permission and API calls

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 300-305

  Peiravian, Naser ^a   Zhu, Xingquan ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Android; API calls; Malware detection; Permissions; Smartphone Security

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; API CALLS; MALWARE DETECTION; PERMISSIONS; SMARTPHONE SECURITIES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; COMPUTER CRIME; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; STATIC ANALYSIS; TOOLS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84897734703     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2013.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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