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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

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

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

ML-based malware detection on dynamic analysis reports is vulnerable to both evasion and spurious correlations. In this work, we investigate a specific ML architecture employed in the pipeline of a widely-known commercial antivirus company,…

Over the last decade, researchers have extensively explored the vulnerabilities of Android malware detectors to adversarial examples through the development of evasion attacks; however, the practicality of these attacks in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Hamid Bostani , Veelasha Moonsamy

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Rahim Taheri , Reza Javidan , Mohammad Shojafar , Vinod P , Mauro Conti

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

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 rapid technological advancement, security has become a major issue due to the increase in malware activity that poses a serious threat to the security and safety of both computer systems and stakeholders. To maintain stakeholders,…

Android malware is a spreading disease in the virtual world. Anti-virus and detection systems continuously undergo patches and updates to defend against these threats. Most of the latest approaches in malware detection use Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Harel Berger , Amit Dvir , Chen Hajaj , Rony Ronen

Malware authors have seen obfuscation as the mean to bypass malware detectors based on static analysis features. For Android, several studies have confirmed that many anti-malware products are easily evaded with simple program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Borja Molina-Coronado , Antonio Ruggia , Usue Mori , Alessio Merlo , Alexander Mendiburu , Jose Miguel-Alonso

Machine-learning models have been recently used for detecting malicious Android applications, reporting impressive performances on benchmark datasets, even when trained only on features statically extracted from the application, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Marco Melis , Davide Maiorca , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

As the popularity of Android smart phones has increased in recent years, so too has the number of malicious applications. Due to the potential for data theft mobile phone users face, the detection of malware on Android devices has become an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chenglin Li , Keith Mills , Rui Zhu , Di Niu , Hongwen Zhang , Husam Kinawi

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

Adversarial machine learning in the context of image processing and related applications has received a large amount of attention. However, adversarial machine learning, especially adversarial deep learning, in the context of malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Deqiang Li , Ramesh Baral , Tao Li , Han Wang , Qianmu Li , Shouhuai Xu

Android Malware has emerged as a consequence of the increasing popularity of smartphones and tablets. While most previous work focuses on inherent characteristics of Android apps to detect malware, this study analyses indirect features and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Ignacio Martín , José Alberto Hernández , Alfonso Muñoz , Antonio Guzmán

Due to the continuous improvement of performance and functions, Android remains the most popular operating system on mobile phone today. However, various malicious applications bring great threats to the system. Over the past few years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Ruicong Huang

This research provides a comprehensive overview of adversarial attacks on AI and ML models, exploring various attack types, techniques, and their potential harms. We also delve into the business implications, mitigation strategies, and…

Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) addresses vulnerabilities in AI systems where adversaries manipulate inputs or training data to degrade performance. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of evasion and poisoning attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Pranav K Jha

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Saraga S. , Anagha M. S. , Dincy R. Arikkat , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P