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As computing systems become increasingly advanced and as users increasingly engage themselves in technology, security has never been a greater concern. In malware detection, static analysis, the method of analyzing potentially malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Chan Woo Kim

Function call graphs (FCGs) have emerged as a powerful abstraction for malware detection, capturing the behavioral structure of applications beyond surface-level signatures. Their utility in traditional program analysis has been well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jakir Hossain , Gurvinder Singh , Lukasz Ziarek , Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce

Botnets are now a major source for many network attacks, such as DDoS attacks and spam. However, most traditional detection methods heavily rely on heuristically designed multi-stage detection criteria. In this paper, we consider the neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Jiawei Zhou , Zhiying Xu , Alexander M. Rush , Minlan Yu

Android malware detection continues to face persistent challenges stemming from long-term concept drift and class imbalance, as evolving malicious behaviors and shifting usage patterns dynamically reshape feature distributions. Although…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yi Xie , Ziyuan Yang , Yongqiang Huang , Yinyu Chen , Lei Zhang , Liang Liu , Yi Zhang

Android is one of the leading operating systems for smart phones in terms of market share and usage. Unfortunately, it is also an appealing target for attackers to compromise its security through malicious applications. To tackle this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaleem Nawaz Khan , Najeeb Ullah , Sikandar Ali , Muhammad Salman Khan , Mohammad Nauman , Anwar Ghani

In this paper a novel system for detecting meaningful deviations in a mobile application's network behavior is proposed. The main goal of the proposed system is to protect mobile device users and cellular infrastructure companies from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-07 L. Chekina , D. Mimran , L. Rokach , Y. Elovici , B. Shapira

Due to the completely open-source nature of Android, the exploitable vulnerability of malware attacks is increasing. Machine learning, leading to a great evolution in Android malware detection in recent years, is typically applied in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yinwei Wu , Meijin Li , Junfeng Wang , Zhiyang Fang , Qi Zeng , Tao Yang , Luyu Cheng

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

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

With the escalating threat of malware, particularly on mobile devices, the demand for effective analysis methods has never been higher. While existing security solutions, including AI-based approaches, offer promise, their lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Merve Cigdem Ipek , Sevil Sen

Malware classification in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge due to concept drift, where the statistical properties of malware data evolve over time, complicating detection efforts. To address this issue, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

Cyber security has grown up to be a hot issue in recent years. How to identify potential malware becomes a challenging task. To tackle this challenge, we adopt deep learning approaches and perform flow detection on real data. However, real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Yun-Chun Chen , Yu-Jhe Li , Aragorn Tseng , Tsungnan Lin

The daily amount of Android malicious applications (apps) targeting the app repositories is increasing, and their number is overwhelming the process of fingerprinting. To address this issue, we propose an enhanced Cypider framework, a set…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Abdelouahid Derhab , Djedjiga Mouheb

The astonishing spread of Android OS, not only in smartphones and tablets but also in IoT devices, makes this operating system a very tempting target for malware threats. Indeed, the latter are expanding at a similar rate. In this respect,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-21 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Saed Alrabaee , Djedjiga Mouheb

The problem of malicious software (malware) detection and classification is a complex task, and there is no perfect approach. There is still a lot of work to be done. Unlike most other research areas, standard benchmarks are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita , Mahmoud Bensaoud

We propose a deep learning approach for identifying malware families using the function call graphs of x86 assembly instructions. Though prior work on static call graph analysis exists, very little involves the application of modern,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Thomas Dalton , Mauritius Schmidtler , Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi

Android malware continues to evolve through obfuscation and polymorphism, posing challenges for both signature-based defenses and machine learning models trained on limited and imbalanced datasets. Synthetic data has been proposed as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Nik Rollinson , Nikolaos Polatidis

In malware detection, dynamic analysis extracts the runtime behavior of malware samples in a controlled environment and static analysis extracts features using reverse engineering tools. While the former faces the challenges of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mao V. Ngo , Tram Truong-Huu , Dima Rabadi , Jia Yi Loo , Sin G. Teo

This technical report presents a comprehensive analysis of malware classification using OpCode sequences. Two distinct approaches are evaluated: traditional machine learning using n-gram analysis with Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Varij Saini , Rudraksh Gupta , Neel Soni

The existence of native code in Android apps plays an important role in triggering inconspicuous propagation of secrets and circumventing malware detection. However, the state-of-the-art information-flow analysis tools for Android apps all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cong Sun , Yuwan Ma , Dongrui Zeng , Gang Tan , Siqi Ma , Yafei Wu