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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

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

Due to the continuous improvement of performance and functions, Android remains the most popular operating system on mobile phone today. However, various malicious applications bring great threats to the system. Over the past few years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Ruicong Huang

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

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 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

The growing popularity of Android requires malware detection systems that can keep up with the pace of new software being released. According to a recent study, a new piece of malware appears online every 12 seconds. To address this, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

The ever-increasing number of Android devices and the accelerated evolution of malware, reaching over 35 million samples by 2024, highlight the critical importance of effective detection methods. Attackers are now using Artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Angelo Gaspar Diniz Nogueira , Kayua Oleques Paim , Hendrio Bragança , Rodrigo Brandão Mansilha , Diego Kreutz

Web access today occurs predominantly through mobile devices, with Android representing a significant share of the mobile device market. This widespread usage makes Android a prime target for malicious attacks. Despite efforts to combat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nishavi Ranaweera , Jiarui Xu , Suranga Seneviratne , Aruna Seneviratne

Several solutions ensuring the dynamic detection of malicious activities on Android ecosystem have been proposed. These are represented by generic rules and models that identify any purported malicious behavior. However, the approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Abdellah Ouaguid , Mohamed Ouzzif , Noreddine Abghour

In the fast-growing smart devices, Android is the most popular OS, and due to its attractive features, mobility, ease of use, these devices hold sensitive information such as personal data, browsing history, shopping history, financial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ashu Sharma , Sanjay K. Sahay

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

Malware for Android is becoming increasingly dangerous to the safety of mobile devices and the data they hold. Although machine learning(ML) techniques have been shown to be effective at detecting malware for Android, a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Md Naseef-Ur-Rahman Chowdhury , Ahshanul Haque , Hamdy Soliman , Mohammad Sahinur Hossen , Tanjim Fatima , Imtiaz Ahmed

Malware detection is a growing problem particularly on the Android mobile platform due to its increasing popularity and accessibility to numerous third party app markets. This has also been made worse by the increasingly sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Kieran McLaughlin , Sakir Sezer

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

This paper proposes a technique for automatically learning semantic malware signatures for Android from very few samples of a malware family. The key idea underlying our technique is to look for a maximally suspicious common subgraph (MSCS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Yu Feng , Osbert Bastani , Ruben Martins , Isil Dillig , Saswat Anand

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

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

This paper introduces a malware detection system for smartphones based on studying the dynamic behavior of suspicious applications. The main goal is to prevent the installation of the malicious software on the victim systems. The approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jorge Maestre Vidal , Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge , Luis Javier García Villalba

Mobile malware has been growing in scale and complexity as smartphone usage continues to rise. Android has surpassed other mobile platforms as the most popular whilst also witnessing a dramatic increase in malware targeting the platform. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Gavin McWilliams , Igor Muttik