On the deterioration of learning-based malware detectors for android

X Fu, H Cai - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Classification using machine learning has been a major class of defense solutions against
malware. Yet in the presence of a large and growing number of learning-based malware …

Assessing and improving malware detection sustainability through app evolution studies

H Cai - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning–based classification dominates current malware detection approaches for
Android. However, due to the evolution of both the Android platform and its user apps …

Towards sustainable android malware detection

H Cai, J Jenkins - Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Approaches to Android malware detection built on supervised learning are commonly
subject to frequent retraining, or the trained classifier may fail to detect newly emerged or …

Empirical assessment of machine learning-based malware detectors for Android: Measuring the gap between in-the-lab and in-the-wild validation scenarios

K Allix, TF Bissyandé, Q Jérome, J Klein… - Empirical Software …, 2016 - Springer
To address the issue of malware detection through large sets of applications, researchers
have recently started to investigate the capabilities of machine-learning techniques for …

Explaining black-box android malware detection

M Melis, D Maiorca, B Biggio… - 2018 26th european …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine-learning models have been recently used for detecting malicious Android
applications, reporting impressive performances on benchmark datasets, even when trained …

Using loops for malware classification resilient to feature-unaware perturbations

A Machiry, N Redini, E Gustafson… - Proceedings of the 34th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In the past few years, both the industry and the academic communities have developed
several approaches to detect malicious Android apps. State-of-the-art research approaches …

Feature importance in android malware detection

V Kouliaridis, G Kambourakis… - 2020 IEEE 19th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The topic of mobile malware detection on the Android platform has attracted significant
attention over the last several years. However, while much research has been conducted …

Explainable ai for android malware detection: Towards understanding why the models perform so well?

Y Liu, C Tantithamthavorn, L Li… - 2022 IEEE 33rd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML)-based Android malware detection has been one of the most popular
research topics in the mobile security community. An increasing number of research studies …

Rmvdroid: towards a reliable android malware dataset with app metadata

H Wang, J Si, H Li, Y Guo - 2019 IEEE/ACM 16th international …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large number of research studies have been focused on detecting Android malware in
recent years. As a result, a reliable and large-scale malware dataset is essential to build …

Droidevolver: Self-evolving android malware detection system

K Xu, Y Li, R Deng, K Chen, J Xu - 2019 IEEE European …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the frequent changes in the Android framework and the continuous evolution of
Android malware, it is challenging to detect malware over time in an effective and scalable …