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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

Background. In modern software development, the use of external libraries and packages is increasingly prevalent, streamlining the software development process and enabling developers to deploy feature-rich systems with little coding. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Haya Samaana , Diego Elias Costa , Emad Shihab , Ahmad Abdellatif

With the escalating threat of malware, particularly on mobile devices, the demand for effective analysis methods has never been higher. While existing security solutions, including AI-based approaches, offer promise, their lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Merve Cigdem Ipek , Sevil Sen

Researchers have proposed kinds of malware detection methods to solve the explosive mobile security threats. We argue that the experiment results are inflated due to the research bias introduced by the variability of malware dataset. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yan Lin , Tianming Liu , Wei Liu , Zhigaoyuan Wang , Li Li , Guoai Xu , Haoyu Wang

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

Mass-market mobile security threats have increased recently due to the growth of mobile technologies and the popularity of mobile devices. Accordingly, techniques have been introduced for identifying, classifying, and defending against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jae-wook Jang , Jaesung Yun , Aziz Mohaisen , Jiyoung Woo , Huy Kang Kim

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

As our professional, social, and financial existences become increasingly digitized and as our government, healthcare, and military infrastructures rely more on computer technologies, they present larger and more lucrative targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Ethan M. Rudd , Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

Digital systems find it challenging to keep up with cybersecurity threats. The daily emergence of more than 560,000 new malware strains poses significant hazards to the digital ecosystem. The traditional malware detection methods fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Abrar Fahim , Shamik Dey , Md. Nurul Absur , Md Kamrul Siam , Md. Tahmidul Huque , Jafreen Jafor Godhuli

As mobile and smart connectivity continue to grow, malware presents a permanently evolving threat to different types of critical domains such as health, logistics, banking, and community segments. Different types of malware have dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Ahmed Sabbah , Mohammed Kharma , Mustafa Jarrar

Detection of malware cyber-attacks at the processor microarchitecture level has recently emerged as a promising solution to enhance the security of computer systems. Security mechanisms, such as hardware-based malware detection, use machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Abigail Kwan

Existing Android malware detection approaches use a variety of features such as security sensitive APIs, system calls, control-flow structures and information flows in conjunction with Machine Learning classifiers to achieve accurate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being applied in malware detection and their robustness has been widely debated. Traditionally an adversarial example generation scheme relies on either detailed model information (gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sun RuiJin , Guo ShiZe , Guo JinHong , Xing ChangYou , Yang LuMing , Guo Xi , Pan ZhiSong

The persistent threat of Android malware presents a serious challenge to the security of millions of users globally. While many machine learning-based methods have been developed to detect these threats, their reliance on large labeled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 M. Tahir Akdeniz , Zeynep Yeşilkaya , İ. Enes Köse , İ. Ulaş Ünal , Sevil Şen

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

Malware poses a significant security risk to individuals, organizations, and critical infrastructure by compromising systems and data. Leveraging memory dumps that offer snapshots of computer memory can aid the analysis and detection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Salim Sazzed , Sharif Ullah

The tremendous growth in smart devices has uplifted several security threats. One of the most prominent threats is malicious software also known as malware. Malware has the capability of corrupting a device and collapsing an entire network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Muhammad Ahmed , Anam Qureshi , Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi , Murk Marvi

Due to Android's open source feature and low barriers to entry for developers, millions of developers and third-party organizations have been attracted into the Android ecosystem. However, over 90 percent of mobile malware are found…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bin Zhao