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The widespread adoption of smartphones dramatically increases the risk of attacks and the spread of mobile malware, especially on the Android platform. Machine learning-based solutions have been already used as a tool to supersede…

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The extensive damage caused by malware requires anti-malware systems to be constantly improved to prevent new threats. The current trend in malware detection is to employ machine learning models to aid in the classification process. We…

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Today, Android devices are able to provide various services. They support applications for different purposes such as entertainment, business, health, education, and banking services. Because of the functionality and popularity of Android…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Sina Hojjatinia , Sajad Hamzenejadi , Hadis Mohseni

The widespread use of Android applications has made them a prime target for cyberattacks, significantly increasing the risk of malware that threatens user privacy, security, and device functionality. Effective malware detection is thus…

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Malware analysis is a complex process of examining and evaluating malicious software's functionality, origin, and potential impact. This arduous process typically involves dissecting the software to understand its components, infection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Brandon J Walton , Mst Eshita Khatun , James M Ghawaly , Aisha Ali-Gombe

As technology advances, Android malware continues to pose significant threats to devices and sensitive data. The open-source nature of the Android OS and the availability of its SDK contribute to this rapid growth. Traditional malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saleh J. Makkawy , Michael J. De Lucia , Kenneth E. Barner

Android malware has become an increasingly critical threat to organizations, society and individuals, posing significant risks to privacy, data security and infrastructure. As malware continues to evolve in terms of complexity and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Ashish Anand , Bhupendra Singh , Sunil Khemka , Bireswar Banerjee , Vishi Singh Bhatia , Piyush Ranjan

In the fast-growing smart devices, Android is the most popular OS, and due to its attractive features, mobility, ease of use, these devices hold sensitive information such as personal data, browsing history, shopping history, financial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ashu Sharma , Sanjay K. Sahay

In this research paper, our intent is to outline different types of malware, their means of operation, and how they are detected in order to protect yourself against such attacks. Varied permission, and limited technical resources mean that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Sebastian Grochola , Andrew Milliner

In recent years, learning-based Android malware detection has seen significant advancements, with detectors generally falling into three categories: string-based, image-based, and graph-based approaches. While these methods have shown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Doan Minh Trung , Tien Duc Anh Hao , Luong Hoang Minh , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Nguyen Tan Cam , Van-Hau Pham , Phan The Duy

In this paper we present an elaborated graph-based algorithmic technique for efficient malware detection. More precisely, we utilize the system-call dependency graphs (or, for short ScD graphs), obtained by capturing taint analysis traces…

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Android has become the most popular mobile operating system. Correspondingly, an increasing number of Android malware has been developed and spread to steal users' private information. There exists one type of malware whose benign behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yueming Wu , Deqing Zou , Wei Yang , Xiang Li , Hai Jin

Malicious software, or malware, presents a continuously evolving challenge in computer security. These embedded snippets of code in the form of malicious files or hidden within legitimate files cause a major risk to systems with their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Rakshit Agrawal , Jack W. Stokes , Mady Marinescu , Karthik Selvaraj

It is well-known that Android malware constantly evolves so as to evade detection. This causes the entire malware population to be non-stationary. Contrary to this fact, most of the prior works on Machine Learning based Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu

Malicious software is an integral part of cybercrime defense. Due to the growing number of malicious attacks and their target sources, detecting and preventing the attack becomes more challenging due to the assault's changing behavior. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohammad Aziz , Ali Saeed Alfoudi

This paper presents an experimental design and data analytics approach aimed at power-based malware detection on general-purpose computers. Leveraging the fact that malware executions must consume power, we explore the postulate that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Robert Bridges , Jarilyn Hernandez Jimenez , Jeffrey Nichols , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Stacy Prowell

Deep learning has emerged as a promising technology for achieving Android malware detection. To further unleash its detection potentials, software visualization can be integrated for analyzing the details of app behaviors clearly. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhaoyi Meng , Jiale Zhang , Jiaqi Guo , Wansen Wang , Wenchao Huang , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong , Yan Xiong

Machine learning based solutions have been successfully employed for automatic detection of malware on Android. However, machine learning models lack robustness to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding carefully chosen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xiao Chen , Chaoran Li , Derui Wang , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Surya Nepal , Yang Xiang , Kui Ren

The proliferation of ubiquitous computing requires energy-efficient as well as secure operation of modern processors. Side channel attacks are becoming a critical threat to security and privacy of devices embedded in modern computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Nikhil Chawla , Arvind Singh , Monodeep Kar , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Machine learning has been successfully applied in developing malware detection systems, with a primary focus on accuracy, and increasing attention to reducing computational overhead and improving model interpretability. However, an…

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