Research Article SmartMal: A Service-Oriented Behavioral Malware Detection Framework for Mobile Devices

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents SmartMal—anovel service-oriented behavioralmalware detection framework for vehicular andmobile devices. The highlight of SmartMal is to introduce service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts and behavior analysis into the malware detection paradigms.The proposed framework relies on client-server architecture, the client continuously extracts various features and transfers them to the server, and the server’s main task is to detect anomalies using state-of-art detection algorithms. Multiple distributed servers simultaneously analyze the feature vector using various detectors and information fusion is used to concatenate the results of detectors.We also propose a cycle-based statistical approach formobile device anomaly detection.We accomplish this by analyzing the users ’ regular usage patterns. Empirical results suggest that the proposed framework and novel anomaly detection algorithm are highly effective in detecting malware on Android devices. 1