Android Malware Familial Classification and Representative Sample Selection via Frequent Subgraph Analysis.

The rapid increase in the number of Android malware poses great challenges to anti-malware systems, because the sheer number of malware samples overwhelms malware analysis systems. The classification of malware samples into families, such that the common features shared by malware samples in the same family can be exploited in malware detection and inspection, is a promising approach for accelerat...