502 research outputs found
Mobile Botnet Detection: A Deep Learning Approach Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Android, being the most widespread mobile operating systems is increasingly becoming a target for malware. Malicious apps designed to turn mobile devices into bots that may form part of a larger botnet have become quite common, thus posing a serious threat. This calls for more effective methods to detect botnets on the Android platform. Hence, in this paper, we present a deep learning approach for Android botnet detection based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our proposed botnet detection system is implemented as a CNN-based model that is trained on 342 static app features to distinguish between botnet apps and normal apps. The trained botnet detection model was evaluated on a set of 6,802 real applications containing 1,929 botnets from the publicly available ISCX botnet dataset. The results show that our CNN-based approach had the highest overall prediction accuracy compared to other popular machine learning classifiers. Furthermore, the performance results observed from our model were better than those reported in previous studies on machine learning based Android botnet detection
Lightweight Classification of IoT Malware Based on Image Recognition
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an extension of the traditional Internet,
which allows a very large number of smart devices, such as home appliances,
network cameras, sensors and controllers to connect to one another to share
information and improve user experiences. Current IoT devices are typically
micro-computers for domain-specific computations rather than traditional
functionspecific embedded devices. Therefore, many existing attacks, targeted
at traditional computers connected to the Internet, may also be directed at IoT
devices. For example, DDoS attacks have become very common in IoT environments,
as these environments currently lack basic security monitoring and protection
mechanisms, as shown by the recent Mirai and Brickerbot IoT botnets. In this
paper, we propose a novel light-weight approach for detecting DDos malware in
IoT environments.We firstly extract one-channel gray-scale images converted
from binaries, and then utilize a lightweight convolutional neural network for
classifying IoT malware families. The experimental results show that the
proposed system can achieve 94.0% accuracy for the classification of goodware
and DDoS malware, and 81.8% accuracy for the classification of goodware and two
main malware families
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