DroidMark: A Tool for Android Malware Detection using Taint Analysis and Bayesian Network
This addresses data leakage risks for Android users, but it is incremental as it combines existing techniques like taint analysis and Bayesian networks.
The researchers tackled Android malware detection by developing DroidMark, a tool that uses taint analysis and a Bayesian network to classify applications, achieving 96.87% accuracy and a 3.13% error rate.
With the increasing user base of Android devices and advent of technologies such as Internet Banking, delicate user data is prone to be misused by malware and spyware applications. As the app developer community increases, the quality reassurance could not be justified for every application and a possibility of data leakage arises. In this research, with the aim to ensure the application authenticity, Deep Learning methods and Taint Analysis are deployed on the applications. The detection system named DroidMark looks for possible sinks and sources of data leakage in the application by modelling Android lifecycle and callbacks, which is done by Reverse Engineering the APK, further monitoring the suspected processes and collecting data in different states of the application. DroidMark is thus designed to extract features from the applications which are fed to a trained Bayesian Network for classification of Malicious and Regular applications. The results indicate a high accuracy of 96.87% and an error rate of 3.13% in the detection of Malware in Android devices.