Android Malware Detection using Machine Learning

Dr. ElMouatez Billah Karbab is a researcher at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on applied machine learning techniques on malware fingerprinting and mobile & IoT security. He is a research scientist at the National Cyber Forensic and Training Alliance (NCFTA) of Canada, an international organization which focuses on the investigation of cyber-crimes. He is also serving as a data scientist and cyber-security specialist at NCFTA Canada. He served as an associate researcher at Research Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria, where he worked on international projects in collaboration with the university of Cape Town, South Africa, and Heudiasyc Lab, France. ElMouatez has published many peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on malware fingerprinting using machine learning techniques, cyber security, and embedded systems.Mourad Debbabi is Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering and Interim Dean of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds the NSERC/Hydro-Quebec Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security. He is a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Board to the Minister of Digital Transformation, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Cybercrime Council. He serves/served on the boards of Canadian Police College, PROMPT Québec and Calcul Québec. He is the founder and Director of the Security Research Centre at Concordia University. Dr. Debbabi holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Université Paris-XI Orsay, France, and an Engineering degree from Université de Constantine. He has published 6 books and more than 300 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on cyber security, cyber forensics, smart grids, privacy, cryptographic protocols, threat intelligence generation, malware analysis, reverse engineering, specification andverification of safety-critical systems, programming languages and type theory. He has supervised to successful completion 33 Ph.D. students, 76 Master students and 14 Postdoctoral Fellows. He served as a Senior Scientist at the Panasonic Information and Network Technologies Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of Laval University, Canada; Senior Scientist at General Electric Research Center, New York, USA; Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, California, USA; and Permanent Researcher at the Bull Corporate Research Center, Paris, France.Dr. Abdelouahid Derhab received the Engineer's, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boummediene (USTHB), Algiers, in 2001, 2003, and 2007 respectively. He was a full-time researcher at CERIST research center in Algeria from 2002 to 2012. He was an Assistant Professor at King Saud University from 2012 to 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA), King Saud University. He served as a lead guest editor of some peer-reviewed journals. He also served as workshop chair, technical committee chair, and reviewer for many journals and international conferences. He is the author of more than 100 papers in different peer-reviewed journals conferences, and book chapters. He is also a cyber security policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research (GFCYBER). His research interests are: malware analysis, network security, intrusion detection, mobile security, Internet of things, smart grid, blockchain, and cyber security policies.Dr. Djedjiga Mouheb is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah, UAE. She is a member of the University’s Information and Network Security Research Group. Her researchinterests include social networking security, social bots, malware analysis, software fingerprinting, investigation of cyber-threat infrastructures, and software security. Before joining University of Sharjah, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She was also a member of the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) Canada. She holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Master’s degree from École des Mines de Paris, France and Bachelors degree from Institut National d’Informatique (INI), Algeria.

• Introduction.- Background and Related Work.- Fingerprinting Android Malware Packages.- Robust Android Malicious Community Fingerprinting.- Android Malware Fingerprinting Using Dynamic Analysis.- Fingerprinting Cyber-Infrastructures of Android Malware.- Portable Supervised Malware Fingerprinting using Deep Learning.- Resilient and Adaptive Android Malware Fingerprinting and Detection.- Conclusion.