Mobile Family Detection through Audio Signals Classification

Rosangela Casolare, Giacomo Iadarola, Fabio Martinelli, Francesco Mercaldo, Francesco Mercaldo, Antonella Santone

2021

Abstract

Nowadays smartphones, and generically speaking mobile devices, allow users a plethora of tasks in total mobility for instance, from checking the balance on the bank account to distance learning. In this context it is really critical the detection of malicious behaviours, considering the weaknesses of the current antimalware mechanisms. In this paper we propose a method for malicious family detection exploiting audio signal processing: in fact, an application is converted into an audio file and then is processed to generate a feature vector to input several classifiers. We perform a real-world experimental analysis by considering a set of malware targeting the Android platform i.e., 4746 malware belonging to 10 families, showing the effectiveness of the proposed approach for Android malicious family detection.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Casolare R., Iadarola G., Martinelli F., Mercaldo F. and Santone A. (2021). Mobile Family Detection through Audio Signals Classification. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, ISBN 978-989-758-524-1, pages 479-486. DOI: 10.5220/0010543504790486

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt21,
author={Rosangela Casolare and Giacomo Iadarola and Fabio Martinelli and Francesco Mercaldo and Antonella Santone},
title={Mobile Family Detection through Audio Signals Classification},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,},
year={2021},
pages={479-486},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010543504790486},
isbn={978-989-758-524-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT,
TI - Mobile Family Detection through Audio Signals Classification
SN - 978-989-758-524-1
AU - Casolare R.
AU - Iadarola G.
AU - Martinelli F.
AU - Mercaldo F.
AU - Santone A.
PY - 2021
SP - 479
EP - 486
DO - 10.5220/0010543504790486