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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…

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The Android operating system has become the most popular operating system for smartphones and tablets leading to a rapid rise in malware. Sophisticated Android malware employ detection avoidance techniques in order to hide their malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

AI methods have been proven to yield impressive performance on Android malware detection. However, most AI-based methods make predictions of suspicious samples in a black-box manner without transparency on models' inference. The expectation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhi Lu , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Android OS experiences a blazing popularity since the last few years. This predominant platform has established itself not only in the mobile world but also in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This popularity, however, comes at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Abdelouahid Derhab , Djedjiga Mouheb

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

Android malware is one of the most dangerous threats on the internet, and it's been on the rise for several years. Despite significant efforts in detecting and classifying android malware from innocuous android applications, there is still…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ahmed Hashem El Fiky , Ayman El Shenawy , Mohamed Ashraf Madkour

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

The battle to mitigate Android malware has become more critical with the emergence of new strains incorporating increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, in turn necessitating more advanced detection capabilities. Hence, in this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Igor Muttik

Android malware has been on the rise in recent years due to the increasing popularity of Android and the proliferation of third party application markets. Emerging Android malware families are increasingly adopting sophisticated detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-06 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Kieran McLaughlin

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

Since Android has become a popular software platform for mobile devices recently; they offer almost the same functionality as personal computers. Malwares have also become a big concern. As the number of new Android applications tends to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Muhammad Zuhair Qadir , Atif Nisar Jilani , Hassam Ullah Sheikh

With over 50 billion downloads and more than 1.3 million apps in the Google official market, Android has continued to gain popularity amongst smartphone users worldwide. At the same time there has been a rise in malware targeting the…

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

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

With the proliferation of Android malware, the demand for an effective and efficient malware detection system is on the rise. The existing device-end learning based solutions tend to extract limited syntax features (e.g., permissions and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Ruitao Feng , Jing Qiang Lim , Sen Chen , Shang-Wei Lin , Yang Liu

For the dramatic increase of Android malware and low efficiency of manual check process, deep learning methods started to be an auxiliary means for Android malware detection these years. However, these models are highly dependent on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ji Wang , Qi Jing , Jianbo Gao

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

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

We investigate the use of Android permissions as the vehicle to allow for quick and effective differentiation between benign and malware apps. To this end, we extract all Android permissions, eliminating those that have zero impact, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Muhammad Suleman Saleem , Jelena Mišić , Vojislav B. Mišić

Android is undergoing unprecedented malicious threats daily, but the existing methods for malware detection often fail to cope with evolving camouflage in malware. To address this issue, we present HAWK, a new malware detection framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yiming Hei , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Lihong Wang , Xiaolin Xu , Jianwei Liu , Hong Liu , Jie Xu , Lichao Sun

Android malware detection is a critical step towards building a security credible system. Especially, manual search for the potential malicious code has plagued program analysts for a long time. In this paper, we propose Droidetec, a deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhuo Ma , Haoran Ge , Zhuzhu Wang , Yang Liu , Ximeng Liu