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Optimizing Android Program Malware Classification Using GridSearchCV Optimized Random Forest

https://doi.org/10.22219/kinetik.v9i2.1944
Luqman Hakim
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang
Zamah Sari
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang
Ananda Rizaldy Aristyo
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang
Syahrul Pangestu
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang

Corresponding Author(s) : Luqman Hakim

luqman.hakim@umm.ac.id

Kinetik: Game Technology, Information System, Computer Network, Computing, Electronics, and Control, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2024

Abstract

The growing number of smartphones, particularly Android powered ones, has increased public awareness of the security concerns posed by malware and viruses. While machine learning models have been studied for malware prediction in this field, methods for precise identification and classification still require improvement for the perfect detection of malwares and minimizing the cracks on machine learning based classification. Detection accuracy that ranges from 93% to 95% has been observed in prior research, indicates room for improvement.  In order to maximize the hyperparameters, this paper suggests improving the Random Forest method by introducing the grid search algorithm which isn’t present in previous studies. A significant increase in classification accuracy is the main aim of the research. We exhibit an outstanding 99% accuracy rate in detecting malware contaminated programs, demonstrating the significance of our technique. The proposed method can be seen as a huge improvement over existing models, achieving near perfection in detection, in contrast to which typically obtained by previous models with the accuracy rate of 95% max on the same dataset. Our approach achieves such high accuracy and provides a novel remedy for the limits of the Android based platforms, particularly when program processing resources are limited. This study confirms the effectiveness of our improved Random Forest algorithm, points to a paradigm shift in malware detection, and heightened cybersecurity measures for the rapidly growing smartphone market.

Keywords

Cyber Security Malware Classification Android Smartphones Random Forest Hyperparameter Optimization
Hakim, L., Sari, Z., Aristyo, A. R., & Pangestu, S. (2024). Optimizing Android Program Malware Classification Using GridSearchCV Optimized Random Forest. Kinetik: Game Technology, Information System, Computer Network, Computing, Electronics, and Control, 9(2), 173-180. https://doi.org/10.22219/kinetik.v9i2.1944
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