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Android malware detection systems suffer severe performance degradation over time due to concept drift caused by evolving malicious and benign app behaviors. Although recent methods leverage active learning and hierarchical contrastive loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Md Ahsanul Haque , Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol , Suresh Kumar Amalapuram , Vladik Kreinovich , Mohammad Saidur Rahman

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

Ransomware constitutes a significant threat to the Android operating system. It can either lock or encrypt the target devices, and victims are forced to pay ransoms to restore their data. Hence, the prompt detection of such attacks has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Michele Scalas , Davide Maiorca , Francesco Mercaldo , Corrado Aaron Visaggio , Fabio Martinelli , Giorgio Giacinto

In the past decade, the cyber-crime related to mobile devices has increased. Mobile devices, especially the ones running on Android operating system are particularly interesting to malware creators, as the users often keep the biggest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Nikola Milosevic , Junfan Huang

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 use of Machine Learning has become a significant part of malware detection efforts due to the influx of new malware, an ever changing threat landscape, and the ability of Machine Learning methods to discover meaningful distinctions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 John Boutsikas , Maksim E. Eren , Charles Varga , Edward Raff , Cynthia Matuszek , Charles Nicholas

Security issues have gradually emerged with the continuous development of artificial intelligence (AI). Earlier work verified the possibility of converting neural network models into stegomalware, embedding malware into a model with limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Zhi Wang , Chaoge Liu , Xiang Cui , Jie Yin , Xutong Wang

We address the problem of adversarial examples in machine learning where an adversary tries to misguide a classifier by making functionality-preserving modifications to original samples. We assume a black-box scenario where the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Behzad Asadi , Vijay Varadharajan

Recent work has shown that adversarial Windows malware samples - referred to as adversarial EXEmples in this paper - can bypass machine learning-based detection relying on static code analysis by perturbing relatively few input bytes. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Luca Demetrio , Scott E. Coull , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Alessandro Armando , Fabio Roli

Machine learning-based malware detectors are widely deployed in antivirus and endpoint detection systems, yet their reliance on static features makes them vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. This paper investigates whether a malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Juozas Dautartas , Olga Kurasova , Juozapas Rokas Čypas , Viktor Medvedev

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

We present BPFroid -- a novel dynamic analysis framework for Android that uses the eBPF technology of the Linux kernel to continuously monitor events of user applications running on a real device. The monitored events are collected from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yaniv Agman , Danny Hendler

With the rapid advancement of machine learning (ML), ML-based Android malware detection has gained significant popularity due to its ability to automatically learn malicious patterns from Android apps. However, the lack of an in-depth and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiahao Liu , Jun Zeng , Fabio Pierazzi , Ziqi Yang , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Zhenkai Liang

Hardware-based malware detectors (HMDs) are a key emerging technology to build trustworthy computing platforms, especially mobile platforms. Quantifying the efficacy of HMDs against malicious adversaries is thus an important problem. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Mikhail Kazdagli , Ling Huang , Vijay Reddi , Mohit Tiwari

With the Increasing use of Machine Learning in Android applications, more research and efforts are being put into developing better-performing machine learning algorithms with a vast amount of data. Along with machine learning for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Aryan Verma

The Android operating system is the most spread mobile platform in the world. Therefor attackers are producing an incredible number of malware applications for Android. Our aim is to detect Android's malware in order to protect the user. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Alain Menelet , Charles-Edmond Bichot

Repackaging is a technique that has been increasingly adopted by authors of Android malware. The main problem facing the research community working on devising techniques to detect this breed of malware is the lack of ground truth that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Aleieldin Salem

Machine Learning (ML)-based malicious traffic detection is a promising security paradigm. It outperforms rule-based traditional detection by identifying various advanced attacks. However, the robustness of these ML models is largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zixuan Liu , Yi Zhao , Zhuotao Liu , Qi Li , Chuanpu Fu , Guangmeng Zhou , Ke Xu

Machine learning-based Android malware classifiers achieve high accuracy in stationary environments but struggle with concept drift. The rapid evolution of malware, especially with new families, can depress classification accuracy to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yiling He , Junchi Lei , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Malware continues to be a major cyber threat, despite the tremendous effort that has been made to combat them. The number of malware in the wild steadily increases over time, meaning that we must resort to automated defense techniques. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Deqiang Li , Qianmu Li , Yanfang Ye , Shouhuai Xu