Mobile devices and their application marketplaces drive the entire economy of the today's
mobile landscape. Android platforms alone have produced staggering revenues, exceeding …

With more than 500 million of activations reported in Q3 2012, Android mobile devices are
becoming ubiquitous and trends confirm this is unlikely to slow down. App stores, such as …

The prevalence of mobile platforms, the large market share of Android, plus the openness of
the Android Market makes it a hot target for malware attacks. Once a malware sample has …

Context The tremendous growth of Android malware in recent years is a strong motivation
for the vast endeavor in detection and analysis of malware apps. A prominent approach for …

While dynamic malware analysis methods generally provide better precision than purely
static methods, they have the key drawback that they can only detect malicious behavior if it …

The Android ecosystem has witnessed a surge in malware, which not only puts mobile
devices at risk but also increases the burden on malware analysts assessing and …

Context The constant evolution of the Android platform and its applications have imposed
significant challenges both to understanding and securing the Android ecosystem. Yet …

Emulator-based dynamic analysis has been widely deployed in Android application stores.
While it has been proven effective in vetting applications on a large scale, it can be detected …

Smartphones in general and Android in particular are increasingly shifting into the focus of
cybercriminals. For understanding the threat to security and privacy it is important for security …

This paper investigates the impact of code coverage on machine learning-based dynamic
analysis of Android malware. In order to maximize the code coverage, dynamic analysis on …