Research Article

Android Malware Characterization Using Metadata and Machine Learning Techniques

Table 5

F1-score value of Random Forests with different feature sets.

F1-score Random Forest (train/test)

NDet1-15 feats.3-17 feats.5-19 feats7-21 feats9-23 feats.11-25 feats13-27 feats

1 AV0.99/0.840.99/0.860.99/0.840.99/0.740.96/0.720.88/0.670.80/0.64
2 AV0.99/0.870.99/0.870.99/0.860.99/0.790.96/0.750.88/0.710.75/0.66
4 AV0.99/0.890.99/0.880.99/0.870.99/0.800.96/0.770.89/0.730.77/0.69