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Android is the predominant mobile operating system for the past few years. The prevalence of devices that can be powered by Android magnetized not merely application developers but also malware developers with criminal intention to design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng LI

Machine learning-based malware detection dominates current security defense approaches for Android apps. However, due to the evolution of Android platforms and malware, existing such techniques are widely limited by their need for constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Haipeng Cai

Mobile malware are malicious programs that target mobile devices. They are an increasing problem, as seen in the rise of detected mobile malware samples per year. The number of active smartphone users is expected to grow, stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 J. S. Panman de Wit , J. van der Ham , D. Bucur

With the development in the field of smartphones and ever growing base of Internet, various softwares are left prone to many malicious activities like pharming, phishing, ransomware, spam, spoofing, spyware, eavesdropping, etc. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Soumya Sourav , Devashish Khulbe , Naman Kapoor

The pervasiveness of the Android operating system, with the availability of applications almost for everything, is readily accessible in the official Google play store or a dozen alternative third-party markets. Additionally, the vital role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng LI

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

The Android operating system has been the most popular for smartphones and tablets since 2012. This popularity has led to a rapid raise of Android malware in recent years. The sophistication of Android malware obfuscation and detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

Machine learning (ML)-based Android malware detection has been one of the most popular research topics in the mobile security community. An increasing number of research studies have demonstrated that machine learning is an effective and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Li Li , Yepang Liu

As the smartphone market leader, Android has been a prominent target for malware attacks. The number of malicious applications (apps) identified for it has increased continually over the past decade, creating an immense challenge for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Masoud Mehrabi Koushki , Ibrahim AbuAlhaol , Anandharaju Durai Raju , Yang Zhou , Ronnie Salvador Giagone , Huang Shengqiang

It is well-known that malware constantly evolves so as to evade detection and this causes the entire malware population to be non-stationary. Contrary to this fact, prior works on machine learning based Android malware detection have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Annamalai Narayanan , Liu Yang , Lihui Chen , Liu Jinliang

The current state-of-the-art Android malware detection systems are based on machine learning and deep learning models. Despite having superior performance, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Therefore in this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hemant Rathore , Sanjay K. Sahay , Piyush Nikam , Mohit Sewak

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pulido-Cortázar , Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà

Due to its open-source nature, the Android operating system has consistently been a primary target for attackers. Learning-based methods have made significant progress in the field of Android malware detection. However, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xingyuan Wei , Zijun Cheng , Ning Li , Qiujian Lv , Ziyang Yu , Degang Sun

Smartphones have become an intrinsic part of human's life. The smartphone unifies diverse advanced characteristics. It enables users to store various data such as photos, health data, credential bank data, and personal information. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng Li

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

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

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

Machine learning models are increasingly being adopted across various fields, such as medicine, business, autonomous vehicles, and cybersecurity, to analyze vast amounts of data, detect patterns, and make predictions or recommendations. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Machine learning methods can detect Android malware with very high accuracy. However, these classifiers have an Achilles heel, concept drift: they rapidly become out of date and ineffective, due to the evolution of malware apps and benign…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yizheng Chen , Zhoujie Ding , David Wagner

The Android OS has become the most popular mobile operating system leading to a significant increase in the spread of Android malware. Consequently, several static and dynamic analysis systems have been developed to detect Android malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer