Adaptive latent space dip clustering and few-shot wavelet learning for android malware detection
摘要
The increasing proliferation of Android malware has heightened the need for robust detection strategies, particularly in dynamic environments. While future applications may require real-time and cross-platform solutions, current malware detection systems suffer from high computational overhead, low adaptability to new features, inefficiencies in detecting evolving and sophisticated malware, and generalization across diverse malware families; hence, inability to effectively detect new attack techniques. Future applications of Android malware detection demand real-time solutions to these issues that would ensure robust device-agnostic protection across numerous platforms. To mitigate these constraints, this paper therefore introduces an Adaptive Clustering Wavelet Few-Shot Learning (ADCWFSL) framework that integrates adaptive clustering, wavelet multi-resolution analysis, and few-shot learning for a potentially more accurate, adaptive, and scalable detectionapproach. This framework uses a two-tier approach. The first tier uses Subspace-Embedded Adaptive Dip-Based Enhanced Clustering Kernel (SEADECK), a clustering-based method for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction, which identifies high-quality seed features to reduce the complexity of computations. The second tier is Adaptive Few-Shot Wavelet Multi-Resolution (AFSWMR), which enables better malware classification through wavelet transformations and few-shot learning to introduce better generalization across diversely and evolutionarily changing samples of malware. The empirical findings indicate that the ADCWFSL framework surpasses current approaches across precision, recall, F1-score, and accuracy metrics, yielding substantial performance gains across the two datasets used in the evaluation.