Permission Based Android Malware Detector using Machine Learning

Working

• It calculates Signatures of Apk and matches them with the ones stored in the database

• It fetches the permission required by the application from the AndroidManifest.xml and performs analysis

• It gathers the API calls made by the applications and identifies the Dangerous ones

• It predicts final result based on the three analysis performed

USAGE

python3 main.py <sampleAPK.apk> 22 noretrain random_forest all

This command can be interpreted as:

"analyze the sampleAPK with API level 22, use Random Forest as the training model do not retrain the model, use all as the feature selection policy"