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Record W4229730853 · doi:10.13052/2245-1439.523

SMS-Based Mobile Botnet Detection Framework Using Intelligent Agents

2017· article· en· W4229730853 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Cyber Security and Mobility · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBotnetAndroid (operating system)ExploitMalwareComputer scienceComputer securityPhishingShort Message ServiceAndroid malwareComputer networkThe InternetWorld Wide WebOperating system

Abstract

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Along with increasing security measures in Android platforms, the amount of Android malware that use remote exploits has grown significantly. Using mobile botnets, attackers concentrate on reliable attack vectors such as SMS messages. Short Message Service (SMS) has been increasingly targeted by a number of malicious applications (“apps”) that have the ability to abuse SMS features in order to send spam, to transfer command and control (C&C) instructions, to distribute malicious applications via URLs embedded in text messages, to send text messages to premium-rate numbers, and to exploit smartphones. In this paper, we propose an SMS-based botnet detection formwork that uses multi-agent technology based on observations of SMS and Android smartphone features. This formwork has the ability to detect SMS botnets and identify ways to block the attacks in order to prevent damage caused by botnet attacks. We developed an adaptive hybrid model of SMS botnet detectors by using a combination of signature-based and anomaly-based algorithms. These components utilize multi-agent technology to recognize malicious SMS and prevent users from opening these messages that infecting smartphones. This framework includes defence module that employed a more proactive approach that allows us to directly generate signatures and rules that can be used to protect Android smartphones from abuse by SMS botnets. The framework creates a user profile that is used to perform behavioural profiling analysis in order to identity malicious SMS and cut the C&C Channel.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.939
Threshold uncertainty score0.610

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.277 · 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