Research Article

PICAndro: Packet InspeCtion-Based Android Malware Detection

Table 3

Malware detection and classification evaluation metrics.

TermAbbreviationDefinition

True positiveNo. of samples correctly classified into class
True negativeNo. of samples correctly not classified into class
False positiveNo. of samples incorrectly classified into class
False negativeNo. of samples incorrectly not classified into class
Precision
Recall also known as sensitivity
F-measure
Accuracy.Percentage of samples correctly classified