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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

This study examines machine learning techniques like Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, and ensemble methods to detect Android malware. The study evaluates these models on a dataset of Android…

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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

Ever increasing number of Android malware, has always been a concern for cybersecurity professionals. Even though plenty of anti-malware solutions exist, a rational and pragmatic approach for the same is rare and has to be inspected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Deepa K , Radhamani G , Vinod P , Mohammad Shojafar , Neeraj Kumar , Mauro Conti

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

The widespread integration of IoT devices has greatly improved connectivity and computational capabilities, facilitating seamless communication across networks. Despite their global deployment, IoT devices are frequently targeted for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sanket Shukla , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of benign and malicious Android applications, based on static features. In particular, we focus our attention on the permissions requested by an application. We consider both binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Neeraj Chavan , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

Several solutions ensuring the dynamic detection of malicious activities on Android ecosystem have been proposed. These are represented by generic rules and models that identify any purported malicious behavior. However, the approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Abdellah Ouaguid , Mohamed Ouzzif , Noreddine Abghour

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

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Kieran McLaughlin , Sakir Sezer

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

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

The vast majority of today's mobile malware targets Android devices. This has pushed the research effort in Android malware analysis in the last years. An important task of malware analysis is the classification of malware samples into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Luca Massarelli , Leonardo Aniello , Claudio Ciccotelli , Leonardo Querzoni , Daniele Ucci , Roberto Baldoni

Static feature-based Android malware detection using machine learning (ML) remains critical due to its scalability and efficiency. However, existing approaches often overlook security-critical reproducibility concerns, such as dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

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

Internet of Things devices have seen a rapid growth and popularity in recent years with many more ordinary devices gaining network capability and becoming part of the ever growing IoT network. With this exponential growth and the limitation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Robert Shire , Stavros Shiaeles , Keltoum Bendiab , Bogdan Ghita , Nicholas Kolokotronis

Android malware attacks have posed a severe threat to mobile users, necessitating a significant demand for the automated detection system. Among the various tools employed in malware detection, graph representations (e.g., function call…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jingnan Zheng , Jiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Jun Zeng , Ziqi Yang , Zhenkai Liang , Tat-Seng Chua

A common security architecture is based on the protection of certain resources by permission checks (used e.g., in Android and Blackberry). It has some limitations, for instance, when applications are granted more permissions than they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Alexandre Bartel , Jacques Klein , Martin Monperrus , Yves Le Traon

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

With the widespread adoption of smartphones, Android malware has become a significant challenge in the field of mobile device security. Current Android malware detection methods often rely on feature engineering to construct dynamic or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Zhiqiang Wang , Qiulong Yu , Sicheng Yuan