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The Android middleware, in particular the so-called systemserver, is a crucial and central component to Android's security and robustness. To understand whether the systemserver provides the demanded security properties, it has to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Oliver Schranz , Sebastian Weisgerber , Erik Derr , Michael Backes , Sven Bugiel

Numerous tools rely on automatic categorization of Android apps as part of their methodology. However, incorrect categorization can lead to inaccurate outcomes, such as a malware detector wrongly flagging a benign app as malicious. One such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Marco Alecci , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

With millions of apps that can be downloaded from official or third-party market, Android has become one of the most popular mobile platforms today. These apps help people in all kinds of ways and thus have access to lots of user's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xiangyu Liu , Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Zhou Li , Kehuan Zhang

With the increasing popularity of Android in the last decade, Android is popular among users as well as attackers. The vast number of android users grabs the attention of attackers on android. Due to the continuous evolution of the variety…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Shubham Shakya , Mayank Dave

We report the findings of a reimplementation of 18 foundational studies in feature-based machine learning for Android malware detection, published during the period 2013-2023. These studies are reevaluated on a level playing field using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

Android Malware has emerged as a consequence of the increasing popularity of smartphones and tablets. While most previous work focuses on inherent characteristics of Android apps to detect malware, this study analyses indirect features and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ignacio Martín , José Alberto Hernández , Alfonso Muñoz , Antonio Guzmán

File-based encryption (FBE) schemes have been developed by software vendors to address security concerns related to data storage. While methods of encrypting data-at-rest may seem relatively straightforward, the main proponents of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 David Galindo , Jia Liu , Chris McMahon Stone , Mihai Ordean

Android is designed with a number of built-in security features such as app sandboxing and permission-based access controls. Android supports multiple communication methods for apps to cooperate. This creates a security risk of app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Jorge Blasco , Thomas M. Chen , Igor Muttik , Markus Roggenbach

As the smartphone market leader, Android has been a prominent target for malware attacks. The number of malicious applications (apps) identified for it has increased continually over the past decade, creating an immense challenge for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Masoud Mehrabi Koushki , Ibrahim AbuAlhaol , Anandharaju Durai Raju , Yang Zhou , Ronnie Salvador Giagone , Huang Shengqiang

Android is among the popular platforms running on millions of smart devices, like smartphones and tablets, whose widespread adoption is seen as an opportunity for spreading malware. Adding malicious payloads to cracked applications, often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Konstantinos-Panagiotis Grammatikakis , Angela Ioannou , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

Android is becoming ubiquitous and currently has the largest share of the mobile OS market with billions of application downloads from the official app market. It has also become the platform most targeted by mobile malware that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

Mobile messaging apps are a fundamental communication infrastructure, used by billions of people every day to share information, including sensitive data. Security and Privacy are thus critical concerns for such applications. Although the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ioannis Karyotakis , Foivos Timotheos Proestakis , Evangelos Talos , Diomidis Spinellis , Nikolaos Alexopoulos

The Android ecosystem faces a notable challenge known as fragmentation, which denotes the extensive diversity within the system. This issue is mainly related to differences in system versions, device hardware specifications, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zikan Dong , Yanjie Zhao , Tianming Liu , Chao Wang , Guosheng Xu , Guoai Xu , Haoyu Wang

The number of Android smartphone and tablet users has experienced a rapid growth in the past few years and it raises users' awareness on the privacy and security of their mobile devices. The features of openness and extensibility make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Joseph K. Liu , Xiapu Luo , Yu Wang

Android is an open software platform for mobile devices with a large market share in the smartphone sector. The openness of the system as well as its wide adoption lead to an increasing amount of malware developed for this platform. ANANAS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Thomas Eder , Michael Rodler , Dieter Vymazal , Markus Zeilinger

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

Expecting the shipment of 1 billion Android devices in 2017, cyber criminals have naturally extended their vicious activities towards Google's mobile operating system. With an estimated number of 700 new Android applications released every…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Sebastian Neuner , Victor van der Veen , Martina Lindorfer , Markus Huber , Georg Merzdovnik , Martin Mulazzani , Edgar Weippl

The pervasiveness of the Android operating system, with the availability of applications almost for everything, is readily accessible in the official Google play store or a dozen alternative third-party markets. Additionally, the vital role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng LI

Malware evolves rapidly, forcing machine learning (ML)-based detectors to adapt continuously. With antivirus vendors processing hundreds of thousands of new samples daily, datasets can grow to billions of examples, making full retraining…

The proper use of Android app permissions is crucial to the success and security of these apps. Users must agree to permission requests when installing or running their apps. Despite official Android platform documentation on proper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Alkinoon , Trung Cuong Dang , Ahod Alghuried , Abdulaziz Alghamdi , Soohyeon Choi , Manar Mohaisen , An Wang , Saeed Salem , David Mohaisen