Android Malware Detection Based on API Pairing

Abstract

Aiming at the problem that the permission-based detection is too coarse-grained, a malware detection method based on sensitive application program interface(API) pairing is proposed. The method decompiles the application to extract the sensitive APIs corresponding to the dangerous permissions, and uses the pairing of the sensitive APIs to construct the undirected graph of malicious applications and undirected graph of benign applications. According to the importance of sensitive APIs in malware and benign applications, different weights on the same edge in the different graphs are assigned to detect Android malicious applications. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect Android malicious applications and has practical significance.

Keywords

• android
• permission
• application program interface (api)
• malware detection