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While graph-based Android malware classifiers achieve over 94% accuracy on standard benchmarks, they exhibit a significant generalization gap under distribution shift, suffering up to 45% performance degradation when encountering unseen…

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Malware authors reuse the same program segments found in other applications for performing the similar kind of malicious activities such as information stealing, sending SMS and so on. Hence, there may exist several semantically similar…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Roopak Surendran

The vulnerability of machine learning models in adversarial scenarios has garnered significant interest in the academic community over the past decade, resulting in a myriad of attacks and defenses. However, while the community appears to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kevin Eykholt , Farhan Ahmed , Pratik Vaishnavi , Amir Rahmati

Many IoT(Internet of Things) systems run Android systems or Android-like systems. With the continuous development of machine learning algorithms, the learning-based Android malware detection system for IoT devices has gradually increased.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xiaolei Liu , Xiaojiang Du , Xiaosong Zhang , Qingxin Zhu , Mohsen Guizani

Artificial neural networks have been successfully used for many different classification tasks including malware detection and distinguishing between malicious and non-malicious programs. Although artificial neural networks perform very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Robert Podschwadt , Hassan Takabi

Malicious domains are increasingly common and pose a severe cybersecurity threat. Specifically, many types of current cyber attacks use URLs for attack communications (e.g., C\&C, phishing, and spear-phishing). Despite the continuous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Chen Hajaj , Nitay Hason , Nissim Harel , Amit Dvir

Learning-based Android malware detectors degrade over time due to natural distribution drift caused by malware variants and new families. This paper systematically investigates the challenges classifiers trained with empirical risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xinran Zheng , Shuo Yang , Edith C. H. Ngai , Suman Jana , Lorenzo Cavallaro

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

The use of machine learning and intelligent systems has become an established practice in the realm of malware detection and cyber threat prevention. In an environment characterized by widespread accessibility and big data, the feasibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Sean M. Devine , Nathaniel D. Bastian

In dynamic Windows malware detection, deep learning models are extensively deployed to analyze API sequences. Methods based on API sequences play a crucial role in malware prevention. However, due to the continuous updates of APIs and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xingyuan Wei , Ce Li , Qiujian Lv , Ning Li , Degang Sun , Yan Wang

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

Following the increasing popularity of mobile ecosystems, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted them, designing and distributing malicious apps that steal information or cause harm to the device's owner. Aiming to counter them,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Lucky Onwuzurike , Mario Almeida , Enrico Mariconti , Jeremy Blackburn , Gianluca Stringhini , Emiliano De Cristofaro

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 explosive growth and increasing sophistication of Android malware call for new defensive techniques that are capable of protecting mobile users against novel threats. In this paper, we first extract the runtime Application Programming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Yanfang Ye , Shifu Hou , Lingwei Chen , Jingwei Lei , Wenqiang Wan , Jiabin Wang , Qi Xiong , Fudong Shao

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

Beyond its highly publicized victories in Go, there have been numerous successful applications of deep learning in information retrieval, computer vision and speech recognition. In cybersecurity, an increasing number of companies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu

Malware detection is a critical aspect of information security. One difficulty that arises is that malware often evolves over time. To maintain effective malware detection, it is necessary to determine when malware evolution has occurred so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Sunhera Paul , Mark Stamp

Android malware detection is a significat problem that affects billions of users using millions of Android applications (apps) in existing markets. This paper proposes PetaDroid, a framework for accurate Android malware detection and family…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely adopted using Android applications, detecting malicious Android apps is essential. In recent years, Android graph-based deep learning research has proposed many approaches to extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Rahul Yumlembam , Biju Issac , Seibu Mary Jacob , Longzhi Yang

Malware constitutes a major global risk affecting millions of users each year. Standard algorithms in detection systems perform insufficiently when dealing with malware passed through obfuscation tools. We illustrate this studying in detail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua