Permission Based Malware Analysis for Android Applications Using Self-organizing Maps
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Android is an open source platform based on Linux kernel; it is one of the first operating systems that use a permission mechanism to control access to resources. The permission mechanism is fine gained and can control what a particular process could and could not perform. Therefore, these permissions should be monitored closely to make sure they are not assigned to the wrong application. This study is not intended to create an anti-malware solution, instead it uses the permissions to classify and categorize android applications. This paper is offering a novel way of using the self-organizing map to study a set of malware application and try to find a pattern of permission requests. This pattern could be used to analyze the application and compare it against the pattern identified earlier using the self-organizing map.
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