构建首个覆盖13年安卓恶意软件多模态数据集,助力检测模型长期稳定性。
McNdroid: A Longitudinal Multimodal Benchmark for Robust Drift Detection in Android Malware

- 构建跨2013-2025年、三模态对齐的安卓恶意软件数据集
- 发现模型随时间推移性能显著下降,多模态融合更稳健
- 适合研究安全领域模型泛化与对抗性漂移的团队使用
机器学习在真实系统中需应对概念漂移、对抗攻击及特征成本收益差异。恶意软件天然具备这些复杂性,但难以组织数据进行研究。本文提出McNdroid,据我们所知最大的纵向多模态安卓恶意软件基准,覆盖2013–2025年(不含2015年),每款应用包含三类对齐模态:来自manifest和smali代码的静态特征、沙箱执行生成的动态行为特征、以及函数调用图的图结构特征。采用时间分离划分方式,评估标准机器学习与深度学习检测器在不断增大的训练-测试时间间隔下的表现。结果表明性能随时间明显退化,而多模态融合优于单一模态;跨模态一致性也随时间下降,说明漂移同时影响各特征空间与模态间关联性。进一步分析了模态特异性漂移、恶意家族演化及模型解释随时间的变化。本研究公开发布McNdroid数据集、基准划分与代码,支持可复现的研究,推动在非平稳、高安全要求场景下的鲁棒多模态学习。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Machine learning (ML) in real-world systems must contend with concept drift, adversarial actors, and a spectrum of potential features with varying costs and benefits. Malware naturally exhibits all of these complexities, but for the same reason, it is challenging to curate and organize data to study these factors. We present McNdroid, to our knowledge the largest longitudinal multimodal Android malware benchmark for malware detection and drift analysis. McNdroid spans 2013--2025, excluding 2015, and represents each application with three aligned modalities--static features from manifests and smali code, dynamic behavioral features from sandbox execution, and graph-based features from function-call graphs. Using temporally separated splits, we evaluate standard ML and deep-learning detectors across increasing train--test time gaps. Results show clear temporal degradation, while multimodal fusion outperforms the best single modality across long-term temporal gaps. Cross-modal agreement also declines over time, suggesting that drift affects both individual feature spaces and the consistency among modalities. We further analyze modality-specific drift, malware-family evolution, and temporal changes in model explanations. We publicly release McNdroid, benchmark splits, and code to support reproducible research on temporal generalization and robust multimodal learning in security-critical, non-stationary settings.
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