MOHAN BABU UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

Vision
To become a center of excellence in the field of computer science and
applications.

Mission
 Imparting knowledge and skills through contemporary curriculum to
the diverse group of students.

 Creating a talent pool of faculty in diverse domains of computer

applications through continuous training.

 Domain and transferable skill development for the holistic personality

of students to inculcate values and ethics for effective professional
practice and as an entrepreneur.

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 MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (MCA)
PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

After few years of completion of the Program, the graduates of MCA with
Specialization in Full Stack Development will be able to:

PEO1. Pursue higher education in the core and allied areas of computer
science by applying computing knowledge and domain-specific
knowledge, demonstrating their innovative skills, and considering
social and environmental concerns.

PEO2. Become professionals in industry and academia with ability to

investigate, and solve complex computing problems using modern
tools in evolving technologies in the core and allied areas of computer
science.

PEO3. Become successful entrepreneurs to excel in diverse application skills

in the core or allied area of computer science of societal importance.

PEO4. Exhibit professionalism, and uplifting health, safety, legal,

environmental, ethical, and cultural diversity issues for serving the
society and communicating with local, and national peers, bound within
regulations and leading to lifelong learning.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the Program, the graduates of M.C.A Program with

Specialization in Full Stack Development will be able to:

PO1. Computational Knowledge: Apply knowledge of computing fundamentals,

computing specialization, mathematics, and domain knowledge appropriate for the
computing specialization to the abstraction and conceptualization of computing
models from defined problems and requirements.

PO2. Problem Analysis: Identify, formulate, research literature, and solve complex
computing problems reaching substantiated conclusions using fundamental
principles of mathematics, computing sciences, and relevant domain disciplines.

PO3. Design / Development of Solutions: Design and evaluate solutions for

complex computing problems, and design and evaluate systems,
components, or processes that meet specified needs with appropriate
consideration for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and
environmental considerations.
PO4. Conduct Investigations of Complex Computing Problems: Use research-based
knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis, and
interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid
conclusions.

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PO5. Modern Tool Usage: Create, select, adapt and apply appropriate
techniques, resources, and modern computing tools to complex computing
activities, with an understanding of the limitations.

PO6. Professional Ethics: Understand and commit to professional ethics and

cyber regulations, responsibilities, and norms of professional computing
practices.

PO7. Life-long Learning: Recognize the need, and have the ability, to engage
in independent learning for continual development as a computing
professional.

PO8. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and

understanding of the computing and management principles and apply
these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage
projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
PO9. Communication Efficacy: Communicate effectively with the computing
community, and with society at large, about complex computing activities
by being able to comprehend and write effective reports, design
documentation, make effective presentations, and give and understand
clear instructions.

PO10. Societal and Environmental Concern: Understand and assess societal,

environmental, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues within local and
global contexts, and the consequential responsibilities relevant to
professional computing practices.

PO11. Individual and Team Work: Function effectively as an individual and as

a member or leader in diverse teams and in multidisciplinary
environments.
PO12. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Identify a timely opportunity and
using innovation to pursue that opportunity to create value and wealth for
the betterment of the individual and society at large.

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 PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES

On successful completion of the Program, the graduates of M.C.A Program

with Specialization in Full Stack Development will be able to:

PSO1: Design, implement and test applications for complex computing problems
for desired specifications using programming skills.

PSO2: Analyze and adapt managerial and domain skills of Information

Management to model an application’s data requirements to extract
information for interpreting the datasets for Decision Making.

PSO3: Apply suitable techniques and algorithms to integrate Operating System

Services, Network devices, Security mechanisms and Infrastructure to
meet the requirements for the deployment of an application and to
communicate on networks.
PSO4: Design and develop websites and Platforms by applying skills of Full
Stack Technologies

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 MOHAN BABU UNIVERSITY
Sree Sainath Nagar, Tirupati 517 102

SCHOOL OF COMPUTING
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

Certificate
This is to certify that the project report entitled “A Hybrid Approach
For Android Malware Detection” is the bonafide work carried out
and submitted by
M. IMRAN BASHA
22102D020142

in the Department of Computer Applications, School of Computing

of Mohan Babu University, Tirupati in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Computer
Applications during 2023-24.

GUIDE HEAD

Dr. M. Sunil Kumar Dr. M. Sunil Kumar

Professor & Head Professor & Head
Department of CA Department of CA
MBU, Tirupati MBU, Tirupati

Date:

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This acknowledgement transcends the reality of formality when I would like to

express my deep gratitude and respect to all those people behind the screen who
guided, inspired and helped me for the completion of my project work.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to our beloved chancellor Dr. M. Mohan Babu,
Padma Shri awardee for his encouragement throughout the program.

I express my deep sense of gratitude to our beloved vice-chancellor Dr. Nagaraj

Ramrao, for his encouragement throughout the Program.

I owe my gratitude and special thanks to the Dean Dr. B. M. Satish, for his special
encouragement and advice to shape myself for the future career.

I am extremely thankful to Dr. M. Sunil Kumar, HOD, and Department of

Computer Applications for all provisions made and for his constant encouragement
throughout my work.

I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to my Project Coordinator Dr. M.

Sirish Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of CA and Project supervisor Dr.
M. Sunil Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of CA for extending his/her
valuable co- operation, moral support, kind attention, guidance, suggestions and
encouragement to complete my Project Work successfully.

I thank all my beloved Faculty, Department of CA for giving their valuable

suggestions and maximum co-operation.

I owe a deep sense of gratitude to my beloved Parents in extending their moral

support in this Endeavour. I would like to thank all my friends who extended their
help, encouragement and moral support either directly or indirectly in completing my
project work.

M. IMRAN BASHA
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 DECLARATION

I, M. IMRAN BASHA hereby declare that, the project entitled "A Hybrid Approach
For Android Malware Detection" developed by me at MOHAN BABU UNIVERSITY
during the Academic year 2023-2024 and submitted to The Dean, School of Computing
MOHAN BABU UNIVERSITY for partial fulfilment for the award of Master of Computer
Applications (MCA).

I also declare that, the project is resulted by my own effort and that it has not been
copied from anyone and not been submitted by anybody in any of the University or
Institution or Research Centre.

Place:

Tirupati Date:

M. IMRAN BASHA
22102D020142

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 ABSTRACT

The increasing number of malware cases in today's globally connected society can be
attributed to the fact that billions of people use mobile phones. Modern technology is used by
hackers to produce a wide range of malicious applications, with a focus on Android handsets.
It has become clear that stopping Android malware is essential to maintaining the security
and integrity of sensitive and personal data. However, detecting and eliminating these
malicious apps presents significant difficulties, mainly because Android applications have a
complex architecture and many different parts. These parts include things like size,
complexity, and complex API and system interactions. The present work aims to develop a
hybrid algorithm capable of detecting harmful activities on Android devices. Using cutting-
edge deep learning techniques, such as a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-
CNN) and the addition of a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), a type of recurrent neural network
(RNN), the goal is to identify and categorise Android applications as either malware-free or
potentially harmful. Two datasets, Drebin and Amd, will be used to train and test the
suggested method. There are a lot of benign and malware samples in Drebin, and there are a
variety of malware samples in Amd, including spyware, SMS trojans, and backdoors.
Keywords: Android, Malware detection, Deep learning, Malware Analysis, Mobile
Application Security

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