Active Semi-supervised Approach for Checking App Behavior against its Description.(2015)

摘要: Mobile applications are popular in recent years. They are often allowed to access and modify users’ sensitive data. However, many mobile applications are malwares that inappropriately use these sensitive data. To detect these malwares, Gorla et al. propose CHABADA which compares app behaviors against its descriptions. Data about known malwares are not used in their work, which limits its effectiveness. In this work, we extend the work by Gorla et al. by proposing an active and semi-supervised approach for detecting malwares. Different from CHABADA, our approach will make use of both known benign and malicious apps to predict other malicious apps. Also, our approach will select a good set of apps for experts to label as malicious or benign to form a set of labeled training data–it is an active approach. Furthermore, it will make use of both labeled data (known malicious or benign apps) and unlabeled data …