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In today's digital world most of the anti-malware tools are signature based which is ineffective to detect advanced unknown malware viz. metamorphic malware. In this paper, we study the frequency of opcode occurrence to detect unknown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Sanjay Sharma , C. Rama Krishna , Sanjay K. Sahay

Machine learning-based malware detection systems are often vulnerable to evasion attacks, in which a malware developer manipulates their malicious software such that it is misclassified as benign. Such software hides some properties of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shirish Singh , Gail Kaiser

Label manipulation attacks are a subclass of data poisoning attacks in adversarial machine learning used against different applications, such as malware detection. These types of attacks represent a serious threat to detection systems in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Rahim Taheri , Reza Javidan , Mohammad Shojafar , Zahra Pooranian , Ali Miri , Mauro Conti

Android malware detection based on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models is widely used for mobile device security. Such models offer benefits in terms of detection accuracy and efficiency, but it is often difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Maithili Kulkarni , Mark Stamp

Android malware attacks have posed a severe threat to mobile users, necessitating a significant demand for the automated detection system. Among the various tools employed in malware detection, graph representations (e.g., function call…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jingnan Zheng , Jiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Jun Zeng , Ziqi Yang , Zhenkai Liang , Tat-Seng Chua

Android malware presents a persistent threat to users' privacy and data integrity. To combat this, researchers have proposed machine learning-based (ML-based) Android malware detection (AMD) systems. However, adversarial Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ping He , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Shouling Ji

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

Today, Android devices are able to provide various services. They support applications for different purposes such as entertainment, business, health, education, and banking services. Because of the functionality and popularity of Android…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sina Hojjatinia , Sajad Hamzenejadi , Hadis Mohseni

Malware classification is a difficult problem, to which machine learning methods have been applied for decades. Yet progress has often been slow, in part due to a number of unique difficulties with the task that occur through all stages of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas

Malware detection in Android systems requires both cybersecurity expertise and machine learning (ML) techniques. Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has emerged as an approach to simplify ML development by reducing the need for specialized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Joner Assolin , Gabriel Canto , Diego Kreutz , Eduardo Feitosa , Hendrio Bragança , Angelo Nogueira , Vanderson Rocha

Mass-market mobile security threats have increased recently due to the growth of mobile technologies and the popularity of mobile devices. Accordingly, techniques have been introduced for identifying, classifying, and defending against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jae-wook Jang , Jaesung Yun , Aziz Mohaisen , Jiyoung Woo , Huy Kang Kim

Malware has become a widely used means in cyber attacks in recent decades because of various new obfuscation techniques used by malwares. In order to protect the systems, data and information, detection of malware is needed as early as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Heena

Managing the threat posed by malware requires accurate detection and classification techniques. Traditional detection strategies, such as signature scanning, rely on manual analysis of malware to extract relevant features, which is labor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Vrinda Malhotra , Katerina Potika , Mark Stamp

This paper presents a new Android malware detection method based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Jumping-Knowledge (JK). Android function call graphs (FCGs) consist of a set of program functions and their inter-procedural calls. Thus,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Mohanad Sarhan , Marcus Gallagher , Marius Portmann

As technology advances, Android malware continues to pose significant threats to devices and sensitive data. The open-source nature of the Android OS and the availability of its SDK contribute to this rapid growth. Traditional malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saleh J. Makkawy , Michael J. De Lucia , Kenneth E. Barner

The existing malware classification approaches (i.e., binary and family classification) can barely benefit subsequent analysis with their outputs. Even the family classification approaches suffer from lacking a formal naming standard and an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Qijing Qiao , Ruitao Feng , Sen Chen , Fei Zhang , Xiaohong Li

When machine learning is used for Android malware detection, an app needs to be represented in a numerical format for training and testing. We identify a widespread occurrence of distinct Android apps that have identical or nearly identical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Guojun Liu , Doina Caragea , Xinming Ou , Sankardas Roy

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of benign and malicious Android applications, based on static features. In particular, we focus our attention on the permissions requested by an application. We consider both binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Neeraj Chavan , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

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

Despite the growing threat posed by Android malware, the research community is still lacking a comprehensive view of common behaviors and trends exposed by malware families active on the platform. Without such view, the researchers incur…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Guillermo Suarez-Tangil , Gianluca Stringhini