Pagnchakneat C. Ouk1, Wooguil Pak2,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 381-398, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024540
- 24 February 2022
Abstract Although Android becomes a leading operating system in market, Android users suffer from security threats due to malwares. To protect users from the threats, the solutions to detect and identify the malware variant are essential. However, modern malware evades existing solutions by applying code obfuscation and native code. To resolve this problem, we introduce an ensemble-based malware classification algorithm using malware family grouping. The proposed family grouping algorithm finds the optimal combination of families belonging to the same group while the total number of families is fixed to the optimal total number. It also adopts… More >