Detecting Mobile Malware with Apache Spark with David Pryce
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David Pryce discusses the challenges of mobile malware detection and introduces a machine learning solution using Apache Spark to identify and classify mobile threats effectively. The document highlights the growth of mobile malware and the inadequacies of traditional detection methods, emphasizing the need for real-time solutions. A cross-disciplinary team at Wandera is dedicated to addressing these security threats in a scalable and innovative manner.
Detecting Mobile Malware with Apache Spark with David Pryce
- 1. David Pryce, Wandera Detecting Mobile Malware with Apache Spark #DSSAIS12
- 2. #DSSAIS12 Summary • The problem: Mobile-first malware detection • The data and features • The Machine Learning (ML) model • Why Apache Spark? • Making it production ready • Data Science @ Wandera !2
- 3. The power of enterprise mobility !3 Devices are prone to security threats Concerns around appropriate usage Data usage costs are opaque and spiraling Potentially exposing sensitive data Seamless internal communication Added flexibility to working hours Access to more apps and productivity tools E-mail and other services available anywhere
- 4. Happy hunting ground for attackers !4 “Mobile threats can no longer be ignored” - AUGUST 2017 - GARTNER MARKET GUIDE TO MOBILE THREAT DEFENSE 100% Mobile malware growth in 2016 435% High severity threats (CVSS) growth in 2016 80% of organizations experienced mobile phishing attack 38% of hackers bypass endpoint defense using social engineering
- 5. Introducing the Secure Mobile Gateway !5 ON-DEVICE DETECTION IN-NETWORK PROTECTION
- 6. #DSSAIS12 The rise of mobile malware !6 Credit: GData 2017
- 7. Our objectives: Identify and Classify !7 SMS MALWARE TYPES Ransomware Spyware Banker Trojan Rooting Adware
- 8. #DSSAIS12 Why is this a novel problem? • Mobile malware is on the rise • Signature based detection is no longer scalable or effective • We needed a solution that could • work across both known and unknown threats; • effectively protect our customers; and • enable threat research to quickly identify new outbreaks • First solution = signatures and lists • Our solution = machine learning! !8
- 9. #DSSAIS12 The data… !9 Good and bad apps • Source 1: official app stores • Source 2: seen in our devices • Source 3: seen by our gateway 3rd-party threat intelligence External input verified for labels (supervised learning) Currently storing: ~2 million labelled apps +
- 10. #DSSAIS12 … and the features !10 Baidu 2016
- 11. #DSSAIS12 Feature extraction !11 Direct metadata extraction • Total unique fields for all apps ~ 500,000 • A typical app ~ 10+ fields • SPARSE VECTOR Solution: • Hashing function (vector to indices) • Allows for fast retrieval • With big enough map (2^20) to avoid clashes • DENSE VECTOR
- 12. #DSSAIS12 The Machine Learning model • Selected model = Logistic Regression ◦ Models tried = (LogReg, SVM, Decision Tree) • K-fold cross validation to select best parameters • Accuracy: 0.96 !12
- 13. #DSSAIS12 Why Apache Spark? !13 Model persistence PMML paradigm already integrated Truly big data Millions of data points, millions of fields Ease of use Fast, easy and iterative. From EDA to app in days. Scala and python API. Deployment and Scale From local to cluster is easy!
- 15. P.M.M.L • Predictive Model Markup Language • Industry standard • Pro: Language agnostic, REST API, good algo coverage • Con: large file size !15
- 16. #DSSAIS12 Production ready? !16 • Saving to PMML (ML vs MLlib / DF vs RDD) • DataFrame API - doesn’t have PMML functionality (yet) • Hacked PMML to get probabilities for predictions • Size of model ~ 20Mb (compressed) • Overall time to train: less than 2 hours on a big enough cluster F
- 17. Live scoring !17 Extracts features & scores app User installs new app 1 2 If score > 0.9 INVESTIGATE / NOTIFY 3
- 18. #DSSAIS12 Data Science @ Wandera !18 • Cross-disciplinary team of scientists, analysts & developers • Focus on solving real-world problems in a real-time, distributed network • Global team with presence in USA, London, UK and Czech Republic = Innovative Research + Scalable Architecture + Efficient Feature Delivery
- 20. #DSSAIS12 Appendix 1: model testing results !20 Wandera 2018