title: SmartMal: a service-oriented behavioral malware detection framework for mobile devices.
abstract: This paper presents SmartMal--a novel service-oriented behavioral malware detection framework for vehicular and mobile devices. The highlight of SmartMal is to introduce service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts and behavior analysis into the malware detection paradigms. The proposed framework relies on client-server architecture, the client continuously extracts various features and transfers them to the server, and the server's main task is to detect anomalies using state-of-art detection algorithms. Multiple distributed servers simultaneously analyze the feature vector using various detectors and information fusion is used to concatenate the results of detectors. We also propose a cycle-based statistical approach for mobile device anomaly detection. We accomplish this by analyzing the users' regular usage patterns. Empirical results suggest that the proposed framework and novel anomaly detection algorithm are highly effective in detecting malware on Android devices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8453-0495
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China.
authors.forename: Zhizhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China.
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China.
authors.forename: Xuehai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou 215123, China.
authors.forename: Aili
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Patrick C K
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016494:Computer Security / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends; D003199:Computer Systems; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000639:trends*; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000639:trends*