Research Article

PICAndro: Packet InspeCtion-Based Android Malware Detection

Table 5

Comparison of the proposed work with state-of-the-art network traffic-based malware detection solutions in Android.

AuthorYearNetwork featuresDatasetTechniqueAccuracy

Arora et al. [13]2014Traffic statisticsAndroid MalGenomeDecision tree93.75
Malik and Kaushal [14]2016DNS queriesAndroid MalGenomeWeb of trust matching—
Wang et al. [15]2017URL text semanticsSelf collectedSVM99.15
Zulkifli et al. [16]2018Traffic statisticsDrebin, ContagioDecision tree98.4
Abuthawabeh and Mahmoud [17]2019Conversation levelCICAndMal2017ExtraTree classifier87.75
Sanz et al. [18]2020TCP/IP headerSelf collectedRandom forest90
Proposed Work2021Flow and sessionCICMalDroid2020CNN99.12