Consortium blockchain-based malware detection in mobile devices

Jingjing Gu, Binglin Sun, Xiaojiang Du, Jun Wang, Yi Zhuang, Ziwang Wang

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Abstract

To address the problem of detecting malicious codes in malware and extracting the corresponding evidences in mobile devices, we construct a consortium blockchain framework, which is composed of a detecting consortium chain shared by test members and a public chain shared by users. Specifically, in view of different malware families in Android-based system, we perform feature modeling by utilizing statistical analysis method, so as to extract malware family features, including software package feature, permission and application feature, and function call feature. Moreover, for reducing false-positive rate and improving the detecting ability of malware variants, we design a multi-feature detection method of Android-based system for detecting and classifying malware. In addition, we establish a fact-base of distributed Android malicious codes by blockchain technology. The experimental results show that, compared with the previously published algorithms, the new proposed method can achieve higher detection accuracy in limited time with lower false-positive and false-negative rates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12118-12128
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Access
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Feb 2018

Keywords

  • Consortium Blockchain
  • malware detection
  • multi-feature

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