With the dramatic growth in smartphone usage, the number of new malicious mobile
applications has increased rapidly. Identifying malicious applications in large-scale datasets …

Smartphone applications have gained popularity in recent years due to the large footprint of
mobile phone usage and availability of a large number of value-added applications. The …

Android has become the most popular mobile platform due to its openness and flexibility.
Meanwhile, it has also become the main target of massive mobile malware. This …

Android malware is becoming very effective in evading detection techniques, and traditional
malware detection techniques are demonstrating their weaknesses. Signature based …

Due to the exponential increase in the use of smart mobile devices, malware threats on
those devices have been growing and posing security risks. To address this critical issue …

The prevalence of mobile devices (smartphones) along with the availability of high-speed
internet access world-wide resulted in a wide variety of mobile applications that carry a large …

The huge diffusion of the so-called smartphone devices is boosting the malware writer
community to write more and more aggressive software targeting the mobile platforms. While …

Malware is a serious threat that has been used to target mobile devices since its inception.
Two types of mobile malware attacks are standalone: fraudulent mobile apps and injected …

Recently, highly well‐crafted mobile malware has arisen as mobile devices manage highly
valuable and sensitive information. Currently, it is impossible to detect and prevent all …

In this paper, we analyze current methods to distinguish malware from benign software
using Machine Learning (ML) and feature engineering techniques that have been …