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The vulnerability of smartphones to cyberattacks has been a severe concern to users arising from the integrity of installed applications (\textit{apps}). Although applications are to provide legitimate and diversified on-the-go services,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Amirmohammad Pasdar , Young Choon Lee , Seok-Hee Hong

Deep learning has shown its power in many applications, including object detection in images, natural-language understanding, and speech recognition. To make it more accessible to end users, many deep learning models are now embedded in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Yujin Huang , Han Hu , Chunyang Chen

Android allows apps to communicate with its system services via system service helpers so that these apps can use various functions provided by the system services. Meanwhile, the system services rely on their service helpers to enforce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yi He , Yacong Gu , Purui Su , Kun Sun , Yajin Zhou , Zhi Wang , Qi Li

Mobile apps often suffer from functional bugs that do not cause crashes but instead manifest as incorrect behaviors under specific user interactions. Such bugs are difficult to detect automatically because they often lack explicit test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yiheng Xiong , Shiwen Song , Bo Ma , Ting Su , Xiaofei Xie

Filesystem vulnerabilities persist as a significant threat to Android systems, despite various proposed defenses and testing techniques. The complexity of program behaviors and access control mechanisms in Android systems makes it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yu-Tsung Lee , Hayawardh Vijayakumar , Zhiyun Qian , Trent Jaeger

XML configurations are integral to the Android development framework, particularly in the realm of UI display. However, these configurations can introduce compatibility issues (bugs), resulting in divergent visual outcomes and system…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zhijie Liu , Yutian Tang , Meiyun Li , Xin Jin , Yunfei Long , Liang Feng Zhang , Xiapu Luo

Enabling fully automated testing of mobile applications has recently become an important topic of study for both researchers and practitioners. A plethora of tools and approaches have been proposed to aid mobile developers both by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component. Mobile devices are very attractive attack surface for cyber thieves as they hold personal details (accounts, locations, contacts, photos) and have potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shweta Bhandari , Wafa Ben Jaballah , Vineeta Jain , Vijay Laxmi , Akka Zemmari , Manoj Singh Gaur , Mohamed Mosbah , Mauro Conti

With the continuous growth in the usage of Android apps, ensuring their security has become critically important. An increasing number of malicious apps adopt anti-analysis techniques to evade security measures. Although some research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dewen Suo , Lei Xue , Runze Tan , Weihao Huang , Guozi Sun

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

Android applications (apps) grow dramatically in recent years. Apps are user interface (UI) centric typically. Rapid UI responsiveness is key consideration to app developers. However, we still lack a handy tool for profiling app performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Yu Kang , Yangfan Zhou , Hui Xu , Michael R. Lyu

Privacy concerns have long been expressed around smart devices, and the concerns around Android apps have been studied by many past works. Over the past 10 years, we have crawled and scraped data for almost 1.9 million apps, and also stored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Alexander Yu , Yuvraj Agarwal , Jason I. Hong

Machine-learning models have been recently used for detecting malicious Android applications, reporting impressive performances on benchmark datasets, even when trained only on features statically extracted from the application, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Marco Melis , Davide Maiorca , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

App markets have evolved into highly competitive and dynamic environments for developers. While the traditional app life cycle involves incremental updates for feature enhancements and issue resolution, some apps deviate from this norm by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 D. Denipitiyage , B. Silva , K. Gunathilaka , S. Seneviratne , A. Mahanti , A. Seneviratne , S. Chawla

Mobile apps are used in a variety of health settings, from apps that help providers, to apps designed for patients, to health and fitness apps designed for the general public. These apps ask the user for, and then collect and leak a wealth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Alireza Ardalani , Joseph Antonucci , Iulian Neamtiu

In recent years, researchers have developed a number of tools to conduct taint analysis of Android applications. While all the respective papers aim at providing a thorough empirical evaluation, comparability is hindered by varying or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Felix Pauck , Eric Bodden , Heike Wehrheim

Sophisticated evasion tactics in malicious Android applications, combined with their intricate behavioral semantics, enable attackers to conceal malicious logic within legitimate functions, underscoring the critical need for robust and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Guangyu Zhang , Xixuan Wang , Shiyu Sun , Peiyan Xiao , Kun Sun , Yanhai Xiong

Malicious applications (particularly those targeting the Android platform) pose a serious threat to developers and end-users. Numerous research efforts have been devoted to developing effective approaches to defend against Android malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Li Li , Yepang Liu

Android malware detection has been extensively studied using both traditional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches. While many state-of-the-art detection models, particularly those based on DL, claim superior performance,…

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

With the expansion of the software scale and complexity of smart grid systems, the detection of smart grid software defects has become a research hotspot. Because of the large scale of the existing smart grid software code, the efficiency…

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