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Towards Robust Real-Time Hardware-based Mobile Malware Detection using Multiple Instance Learning Formulation

Cryptography and Security 2024-04-23 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

This study introduces RT-HMD, a Hardware-based Malware Detector (HMD) for mobile devices, that refines malware representation in segmented time-series through a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) approach. We address the mislabeling issue in real-time HMDs, where benign segments in malware time-series incorrectly inherit malware labels, leading to increased false positives. Utilizing the proposed Malicious Discriminative Score within the MIL framework, RT-HMD effectively identifies localized malware behaviors, thereby improving the predictive accuracy. Empirical analysis, using a hardware telemetry dataset collected from a mobile platform across 723 benign and 1033 malware samples, shows a 5% precision boost while maintaining recall, outperforming baselines affected by mislabeled benign segments.

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@article{arxiv.2404.13125,
  title  = {Towards Robust Real-Time Hardware-based Mobile Malware Detection using Multiple Instance Learning Formulation},
  author = {Harshit Kumar and Sudarshan Sharma and Biswadeep Chakraborty and Saibal Mukhopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13125},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Under peer review

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