Contrasting permission patterns between clean and malicious android applications
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, 2013, 127 LNICST pp. 69 - 85
- Issue Date:
- 2013-01-01
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© Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2013. The Android platform uses a permission system model to allow users and developers to regulate access to private information and system resources required by applications. Permissions have been proved to be useful for inferring behaviors and characteristics of an application. In this paper, a novel method to extract contrasting permission patterns for clean and malicious applications is proposed. Contrary to existing work, both required and used permissions were considered when discovering the patterns. We evaluated our methodology on a clean and a malware dataset, each comprising of 1227 applications. Our empirical results suggest that our permission patterns can capture key differences between clean and malicious applications, which can assist in characterizing these two types of applications.
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