Towards discovering and understanding unexpected hazards in tailoring antivirus software for android

H Huang, K Chen, C Ren, P Liu, S Zhu… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In its latest comparison of Android Virus Detectors (AVDs), the independent lab AV-TEST
reports that they have around 95% malware detection rate. This only indicates that current …

Inferring the detection logic and evaluating the effectiveness of android anti-virus apps

Z Cai, RHC Yap - Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Data …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Malware on Android has been reported to be on the rise. There are many anti-virus (AV)
apps available on Android. However, most AVs are presented as black-boxes without details …

A survey of malware detection in Android apps: Recommendations and perspectives for future research

A Razgallah, R Khoury, S Hallé… - Computer Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Android has dominated the smartphone market and has become the most popular operating
system for mobile devices. However, security threats in Android applications have also …

Andrototal: A flexible, scalable toolbox and service for testing mobile malware detectors

F Maggi, A Valdi, S Zanero - Proceedings of the Third ACM workshop on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Although there are controversial opinions regarding how large the mobile malware
phenomenon is in terms of absolute numbers, hype aside, the amount of new Android …

MalRadar: Demystifying android malware in the new era

L Wang, H Wang, R He, R Tao, G Meng… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mobile malware detection has attracted massive research effort in our community. A reliable
and up-to-date malware dataset is critical to evaluate the effectiveness of malware detection …

A large-scale study of android malware development phenomenon on public malware submission and scanning platform

H Huang, C Zheng, J Zeng, W Zhou… - … Transactions on Big …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the steady growth of Android malware, we suspect that, during the malware
development phase, some Android malware writers use the popular public scanning …

SpyDroid: A framework for employing multiple real-time malware detectors on Android

S Iqbal, M Zulkernine - 2018 13th International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Android has become the leading operating system for next-generation smart devices.
Consequently, the number of Android malware has also skyrocketed. Many dynamic …

Benchmarking open-source android malware detection tools

M Samara, ESM El-Alfy - 2019 2nd IEEE Middle East and North …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Android is becoming more and more prevalent in modern devices, malware targeting
Android systems is significantly increasing. New generation of malware has great diversity …

Deep ground truth analysis of current android malware

F Wei, Y Li, S Roy, X Ou, W Zhou - … , DIMVA 2017, Bonn, Germany, July 6-7 …, 2017 - Springer
To build effective malware analysis techniques and to evaluate new detection tools, up-to-
date datasets reflecting the current Android malware landscape are essential. For such …

Don't pick the cherry: An evaluation methodology for android malware detection methods

A Salem, S Banescu, A Pretschner - arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10560, 2019 - arxiv.org
In evaluating detection methods, the malware research community relies on scan results
obtained from online platforms such as VirusTotal. Nevertheless, given the lack of standards …