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DroidDissector is an extraction tool for both static and dynamic features. The aim is to provide Android malware researchers and analysts with an integrated tool that can extract all of the most widely used features in Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

The battle to mitigate Android malware has become more critical with the emergence of new strains incorporating increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, in turn necessitating more advanced detection capabilities. Hence, in this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Igor Muttik

Each day, anti-virus companies receive tens of thousands samples of potentially harmful executables. Many of the malicious samples are variations of previously encountered malware, created by their authors to evade pattern-based detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-08-27 Joris Kinable , Orestis Kostakis

Malware detection on binary executables provides a high availability to even binaries which are not disassembled or decompiled. However, a binary-level approach could cause ambiguity problems. In this paper, we propose a new feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jeongwoo Kim , Eun-Sun Cho , Joon-Young Paik

Malware is a piece of software that was written with the intent of doing harm to data, devices, or people. Since a number of new malware variants can be generated by reusing codes, malware attacks can be easily launched and thus become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Fangtian Zhong , Zekai Chen , Minghui Xu , Guoming Zhang , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Existing malware detectors on safety-critical devices have difficulties in runtime detection due to the performance overhead. In this paper, we introduce PROPEDEUTICA, a framework for efficient and effective real-time malware detection,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ruimin Sun , Xiaoyong Yuan , Pan He , Qile Zhu , Aokun Chen , Andre Gregio , Daniela Oliveira , Xiaolin Li

Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

As malware continues to become more complex and harder to detect, Malware Analysis needs to continue to evolve to stay one step ahead. One promising key area approach focuses on using system calls and API Calls, the core communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Malware detection and analysis are active research subjects in cybersecurity over the last years. Indeed, the development of obfuscation techniques, as packing, for example, requires special attention to detect recent variants of malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Benjamin Marais , Tony Quertier , Christophe Chesneau

As in other cybersecurity areas, machine learning (ML) techniques have emerged as a promising solution to detect Android malware. In this sense, many proposals employing a variety of algorithms and feature sets have been presented to date,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Borja Molina-Coronado , Usue Mori , Alexander Mendiburu , Jose Miguel-Alonso

Android is currently the most extensively used smartphone platform in the world. Due to its popularity and open source nature, Android malware has been rapidly growing in recent years, and bringing great risks to users' privacy. The malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Wenhao fan , Liang Zhao , Jiayang Wang , Ye Chen , Fan Wu , Yuan'an Liu

Malware is a significant threat to the security of computer systems and networks which requires sophisticated techniques to analyze the behavior and functionality for detection. Traditional signature-based malware detection methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shaswata Mitra , Stephen A. Torri , Sudip Mittal

Existing Android malware detection approaches use a variety of features such as security sensitive APIs, system calls, control-flow structures and information flows in conjunction with Machine Learning classifiers to achieve accurate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu

It is well-known that malware constantly evolves so as to evade detection and this causes the entire malware population to be non-stationary. Contrary to this fact, prior works on machine learning based Android malware detection have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Annamalai Narayanan , Liu Yang , Lihui Chen , Liu Jinliang

With the widespread adoption of smartphones, Android malware has become a significant challenge in the field of mobile device security. Current Android malware detection methods often rely on feature engineering to construct dynamic or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zhiqiang Wang , Qiulong Yu , Sicheng Yuan

The rise in popularity of the Android platform has resulted in an explosion of malware threats targeting it. As both Android malware and the operating system itself constantly evolve, it is very challenging to design robust malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Enrico Mariconti , Lucky Onwuzurike , Panagiotis Andriotis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross , Gianluca Stringhini

Dynamic malware analysis executes the program in an isolated environment and monitors its run-time behaviour (e.g. system API calls) for malware detection. This technique has been proven to be effective against various code obfuscation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Zhaoqi Zhang , Panpan Qi , Wei Wang

The widespread use of smartphones in daily life has raised concerns about privacy and security among researchers and practitioners. Privacy issues are generally highly prevalent in mobile applications, particularly targeting the Android…

Binary malware summarization aims to automatically generate human-readable descriptions of malware behaviors from executable files, facilitating tasks like malware cracking and detection. Previous methods based on Large Language Models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Haolang Lu , Hongrui Peng , Guoshun Nan , Jiaoyang Cui , Cheng Wang , Weifei Jin , Songtao Wang , Shengli Pan , Xiaofeng Tao

Enterprise networks are in constant danger of being breached by cyber-attackers, but making the decision about what security tools to deploy to mitigate this risk requires carefully designed evaluation of security products. One of the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Konstantin Berlin , Joshua Saxe