Program code is a valuable asset to its owner. Due to the easy-to-reverse nature of Java,
code protection for Android apps is of particular importance. To this end, code obfuscation is …

This work presents a new approach for deobfuscating Android APKs based on probabilistic
learning of large code bases (termed" Big Code"). The key idea is to learn a probabilistic …

The Android platform has been the dominant mobile platform in recent years resulting in
millions of apps and security threats against those apps. Anti-malware products aim to …

Obfuscation techniques modify an app's source (or machine) code in order to make it more
difficult to analyze. This is typically applied to protect intellectual property in benign apps, or …

Existing Android malware detection methods are usually hard to simultaneously resist
various obfuscation techniques. Therefore, bytecode-based code obfuscation becomes an …

Obfuscation is used in malware to hide malicious activity from manual or automatic program
analysis. On the Android platform, malware has had a history of using obfuscation …

Android obfuscation techniques include not only classic code obfuscation techniques that
were adapted to Android, but also obfuscation methods that target the Android platform …

Recent years have witnessed a steady shift in technology from desktop computers to mobile
devices. In the global picture of available mobile platforms, Android stands out as a …

Android OS popularity has given significant rise to malicious apps targeting it. Malware use
state of the art obfuscation methods to hide their functionality and evade anti-malware …

In order to effectively evade anti-malware solutions, Android malware authors are
progressively resorting to automatic obfuscation strategies. Recent works have shown, on …