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As smartphones become increasingly more powerful, a new generation of highly interactive user-centric mobile apps emerge to make user's life simpler and more productive. Mobile phones applications have to sustain limited resource…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Oscar J. Romero , Sushma A. Akoju

In this position paper we advocate software model checking as a technique suitable for security analysis of mobile apps. Our recommendation is based on promising results that we achieved on analysing app collusion in the context of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Irina Mariuca Asavoae , Hoang Nga Nguyen , Markus Roggenbach , Siraj Ahmed Shaikh

There is little information from independent sources in the public domain about mobile malware infection rates. The only previous independent estimate (0.0009%) [12], was based on indirect measurements obtained from domain name resolution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Hien Thi Thu Truong , Eemil Lagerspetz , Petteri Nurmi , Adam J. Oliner , Sasu Tarkoma , N. Asokan , Sourav Bhattacharya

Android apps are built on APIs that abstract core Android system functionalities. These APIs are officially documented in multiple files distributed with the Android source code or SDK, which we collectively refer to as Android API Lists…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Sinan Wang , Qi Zhang , Jiacheng Li , Lili Wei , Yida Tao , Yepang Liu

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, running on more than 70% of mobile devices. This implies a gigantic and very competitive market for Android apps. Being successful in such a market is far from trivial and…

Desktop browser extensions have long allowed users to improve their experience online and tackle widespread harms on websites. So far, no equivalent solution exists for mobile apps, despite the fact that individuals now spend significantly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Konrad Kollnig , Siddhartha Datta , Nigel Shadbolt

The widespread significance of Android IoT devices is due to its flexibility and hardware support features which revolutionized the digital world by introducing exciting applications almost in all walks of daily life, such as healthcare,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Rajesh Kumar , WenYong Wang , Jay Kumar , Zakria , Ting Yang , Waqar Ali

Android malware is a continuously expanding threat to billions of mobile users around the globe. Detection systems are updated constantly to address these threats. However, a backlash takes the form of evasion attacks, in which an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Harel Berger , Chen Hajaj , Enrico Mariconti , Amit Dvir

Sophisticated evasion tactics in malicious Android applications, combined with their intricate behavioral semantics, enable attackers to conceal malicious logic within legitimate functions, underscoring the critical need for robust and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Guangyu Zhang , Xixuan Wang , Shiyu Sun , Peiyan Xiao , Kun Sun , Yanhai Xiong

The rapidly evolving Android malware ecosystem demands high-quality, real-time datasets as a foundation for effective detection and defense. With the widespread adoption of mobile devices across industrial systems, they have become a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hongpeng Bai , Minhong Dong , Yao Zhang , Shunzhe Zhao , Haobo Zhang , Lingyue Li , Yude Bai , Guangquan Xu

Machine learning (ML) has gained significant adoption in Android malware detection to address the escalating threats posed by the rapid proliferation of malware attacks. However, recent studies have revealed the inherent vulnerabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Zongyao Chen , Shui Yu

Android malware detection is a significat problem that affects billions of users using millions of Android applications (apps) in existing markets. This paper proposes PetaDroid, a framework for accurate Android malware detection and family…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi

Multi-scanner Antivirus systems provide insightful information on the nature of a suspect application; however there is often a lack of consensus and consistency between different Anti-Virus engines. In this article, we analyze more than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ignacio Martín , José Alberto Hernández , Sergio de los Santos

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. It is an operating system for low…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mayank Goel , Gourav Singal

Mobile application marketplaces are responsible for vetting apps to identify and mitigate security risks. Current vetting processes are labor-intensive, relying on manual analysis by security professionals aided by semi-automated tools. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yu Yang , Zhenyuan Li , Xiandong Ran , Jiahao Liu , Jiahui Wang , Bo Yu , Shouling Ji

The daily amount of Android malicious applications (apps) targeting the app repositories is increasing, and their number is overwhelming the process of fingerprinting. To address this issue, we propose an enhanced Cypider framework, a set…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Abdelouahid Derhab , Djedjiga Mouheb

The rapid evolution of Android malware poses significant challenges to the maintenance and security of mobile applications (apps). Traditional detection techniques often struggle to keep pace with emerging malware variants that employ…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tiezhu Sun , Marco Alecci , Aleksandr Pilgun , Yewei Song , Xunzhu Tang , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

We study the temporal dynamics of potentially harmful apps (PHAs) on Android by leveraging 8.8M daily on-device detections collected among 11.7M customers of a popular mobile security product between 2019 and 2020. We show that the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yun Shen , Pierre-Antoine Vervier , Gianluca Stringhini

Repackaging is a serious threat to the Android ecosystem as it deprives app developers of their benefits, contributes to spreading malware on users' devices, and increases the workload of market maintainers. In the space of six years, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Li Li , Tegawendé Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

As Android malware is growing and evolving, deep learning has been introduced into malware detection, resulting in great effectiveness. Recent work is considering hybrid models and multi-view learning. However, they use only simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yafei Wu , Jian Shi , Peicheng Wang , Dongrui Zeng , Cong Sun