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Record W2183719191 · doi:10.1109/iemcon.2015.7344482

Performance of malware classifier for android

2015· article· en· W2183719191 on OpenAlexaff
Mohammed S. Alam, Son T. Vuong

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAndroid (operating system)Computer scienceCross-validationMalwareRandom forestTest setClassifier (UML)Android malwareMachine learningAndroid BeamArtificial intelligenceData miningOperating systemEmbedded system

Abstract

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Smartphone devices are prevalent today with an estimate of around 2 billion shipments in 2015. Off these, the Android platform constitutes over 1 billion devices. Android also happens to be the most vulnerable platform among smartphone devices. In this paper we perform a Random Forest Classification on Android feature dataset to measure the reliability of behaviour analysis. We perform comparison between performance of the algorithm as its parameters are changed. We conduct a 10-fold cross validation and also perform test with a separate training set and validation set. We compare to see if use of SMOTE algorithm to generate instances of the under sampled class helps in either cross validation or separate training - validation set tests. We also provide a description of the framework that can be used to actively monitor Android devices by running a service on the device. According to our evaluation, a 10 fold cross validation gives a 96.40 percent correct result using the SMOTE algorithm but drops to 81.64 percent using a validation set test.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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