Obfuscation techniques have been conventionally used for legitimate applications, including
preventing application reverse engineering, tampering and protecting intellectual property. A …

Mobile malware threats (eg, on Android) have recently become a real concern. In this paper,
we evaluate the state-of-the-art commercial mobile anti-malware products for Android and …

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

Malware authors constantly obfuscate their files and defenders regularly develop new
techniques to detect them. Given this cat-and-mouse game, specialized obfuscation services …

Mobile malware threats have recently become a real concern. In this paper, we evaluate the
state-of-the-art commercial mobile antimalware products for Android and test how resistant …

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 …

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous due to centralization of private user information,
contacts, messages and multiple sensors. Google Android, an open-source mobile …

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 …

In the last years more and more often obfuscation techniques are used on malware to evade
the detection of static analysis tools. This problem was already mentioned and studied in …

The authors of mobile-malware have started to leverage program protection techniques to
circumvent anti-viruses, or simply hinder reverse engineering. In response to the diffusion of …