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There is an increase in global malware threats. To address this, an encryption-type ransomware has been introduced on the Android operating system. The challenges associated with malicious threats in phone use have become a pressing issue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Parick Ozoh , John K Omoniyi , Bukola Ibitoye

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

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely adopted using Android applications, detecting malicious Android apps is essential. In recent years, Android graph-based deep learning research has proposed many approaches to extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Rahul Yumlembam , Biju Issac , Seibu Mary Jacob , Longzhi Yang

With the popularity of Android growing exponentially, the amount of malware has significantly exploded. It is arguably one of the most viral problems on mobile platforms. Recently, various approaches have been introduced to detect Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Peng Xu

Android has become the most popular mobile operating system. Correspondingly, an increasing number of Android malware has been developed and spread to steal users' private information. There exists one type of malware whose benign behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yueming Wu , Deqing Zou , Wei Yang , Xiang Li , Hai Jin

Android malware still represents the most significant threat to mobile systems. While Machine Learning systems are increasingly used to identify these threats, past studies have revealed that attackers can bypass these detection mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Diego Soi , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto , Harel Berger

Mobile malware has been growing in scale and complexity spurred by the unabated uptake of smartphones worldwide. Android is fast becoming the most popular mobile platform resulting in sharp increase in malware targeting the platform.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Gavin McWilliams

Sophisticated malware families exploit the openness of the Android platform to infiltrate IoT networks, enabling large-scale disruption, data exfiltration, and denial-of-service attacks. This systematic literature review (SLR) examines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shama Maganur , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Fangtian Zhong

Android OS experiences a blazing popularity since the last few years. This predominant platform has established itself not only in the mobile world but also in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This popularity, however, comes at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Abdelouahid Derhab , Djedjiga Mouheb

Android is among the most targeted platform by attackers. While attackers are improving their techniques, traditional solutions based on static and dynamic analysis have been also evolving. In addition to the application code, Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Sevil Sen , Burcu Can

In this paper, we develop four malware detection methods using Hamming distance to find similarity between samples which are first nearest neighbors (FNN), all nearest neighbors (ANN), weighted all nearest neighbors (WANN), and k-medoid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Rahim Taheri , Meysam Ghahramani , Reza Javidan , Mohammad Shojafar , Zahra Pooranian , Mauro Conti

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

Static detection technologies based on signature-based approaches that are widely used in Android platform to detect malicious applications. It can accurately detect malware by extracting signatures from test data and then comparing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Sanya Chaba , Rahul Kumar , Rohan Pant , Mayank Dave

In this paper, we propose to identify compromised mobile devices from a network administrator's point of view. Intuitively, inadvertent users (and thus their devices) who download apps through untrustworthy markets are often allured to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Euijin Choo , Mohamed Nabeel , Mashael Alsabah , Issa Khalil , Ting Yu , Wei Wang

Since Android has become a popular software platform for mobile devices recently; they offer almost the same functionality as personal computers. Malwares have also become a big concern. As the number of new Android applications tends to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Muhammad Zuhair Qadir , Atif Nisar Jilani , Hassam Ullah Sheikh

With the growth of mobile devices and applications, the number of malicious software, or malware, is rapidly increasing in recent years, which calls for the development of advanced and effective malware detection approaches. Traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Rui Zhu , Chenglin Li , Di Niu , Hongwen Zhang , Husam Kinawi

Android malware has been on the rise in recent years due to the increasing popularity of Android and the proliferation of third party application markets. Emerging Android malware families are increasingly adopting sophisticated detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-06 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Kieran McLaughlin

As Android has become increasingly popular, so has malware targeting it, thus pushing the research community to propose different detection techniques. However, the constant evolution of the Android ecosystem, and of malware itself, makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lucky Onwuzurike , Enrico Mariconti , Panagiotis Andriotis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross , Gianluca Stringhini

The android operating system is being installed in most of the smart devices. The introduction of intrusions in such operating systems is rising at a tremendous rate. With the introduction of such malicious data streams, the smart devices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Madiha Tahreem , Ifrah Andleeb , Bilal Zahid Hussain , Arsalan Hameed

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