The evolution of android malware and android analysis techniques

K Tam, A Feizollah, NB Anuar, R Salleh… - ACM Computing …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
With the integration of mobile devices into daily life, smartphones are privy to increasing
amounts of sensitive information. Sophisticated mobile malware, particularly Android …

A review on feature selection in mobile malware detection

A Feizollah, NB Anuar, R Salleh, AWA Wahab - Digital investigation, 2015 - Elsevier
The widespread use of mobile devices in comparison to personal computers has led to a
new era of information exchange. The purchase trends of personal computers have started …

Apposcopy: Semantics-based detection of android malware through static analysis

Y Feng, S Anand, I Dillig, A Aiken - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present Apposcopy, a new semantics-based approach for identifying a prevalent class of
Android malware that steals private user information. Apposcopy incorporates (i) a high …

Android malware familial classification and representative sample selection via frequent subgraph analysis

M Fan, J Liu, X Luo, K Chen, Z Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rapid increase in the number of Android malware poses great challenges to anti-
malware systems, because the sheer number of malware samples overwhelms malware …

Andrubis--1,000,000 apps later: A view on current Android malware behaviors

M Lindorfer, M Neugschwandtner… - … on building analysis …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Android is the most popular smartphone operating system with a market share of 80%, but
as a consequence, also the platform most targeted by malware. To deal with the increasing …

Automated poisoning attacks and defenses in malware detection systems: An adversarial machine learning approach

S Chen, M Xue, L Fan, S Hao, L Xu, H Zhu, B Li - computers & security, 2018 - Elsevier
The evolution of mobile malware poses a serious threat to smartphone security. Today,
sophisticated attackers can adapt by maximally sabotaging machine-learning classifiers via …

HelDroid: Dissecting and Detecting Mobile Ransomware

N Andronio, S Zanero, F Maggi - … in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th …, 2015 - Springer
In ransomware attacks, the actual target is the human, as opposed to the classic attacks that
abuse the infected devices (eg, botnet renting, information stealing). Mobile devices are by …

Achieving accuracy and scalability simultaneously in detecting application clones on android markets

K Chen, P Liu, Y Zhang - … of the 36th International Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Besides traditional problems such as potential bugs,(smartphone) application clones on
Android markets bring new threats. That is, attackers clone the code from legitimate Android …

Finding unknown malice in 10 seconds: Mass vetting for new threats at the {Google-Play} scale

K Chen, P Wang, Y Lee, XF Wang, N Zhang… - 24th USENIX Security …, 2015 - usenix.org
An app market's vetting process is expected to be scalable and effective. However, today's
vetting mechanisms are slow and less capable of catching new threats. In our research, we …

A performance-sensitive malware detection system using deep learning on mobile devices

R Feng, S Chen, X Xie, G Meng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently, Android malware detection is mostly performed on server side against the
increasing number of malware. Powerful computing resource provides more exhaustive …