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Android is currently the leading mobile operating system in the world. The huge number of Android devices attracts developers to create applications for it. However, it also attracts attackers that collect sensitive data or make money. This problem has led many researchers to propose malware detection systems and custom versions of Android that can help users against malicious activities. Evaluating these systems is a crucial part of malware prevention research. However, recent datasets that cover different kinds of benign and malicious applications to evaluate the malware detection techniques are often not available. With thousands of newly released applications every day and different new malicious activities discovered, it is difficult to keep malicious application datasets up to date. This paper introduces a recent and adaptive dataset that includes 5,000 applications from different malware categories that can be …