In the age of increasing mobile and smart connectivity, malware poses an ever evolving
threat to individuals, societies and nations. Anti-malware companies are often the first and …

Android obfuscation techniques include not only classic code obfuscation techniques that
were adapted to Android, but also obfuscation methods that target the Android platform …

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 …

Obfuscapk is an open-source automatic obfuscation tool for Android apps that works in a
black-box fashion (ie, it does not need the app source code). Obfuscapk supports advanced …

Android platform security is an active area of research where malware detection techniques
continuously evolve to identify novel malware and improve the timely and accurate detection …

Android OS popularity has given significant rise to malicious apps targeting it. Malware use
state of the art obfuscation methods to hide their functionality and evade anti-malware …

As in other cybersecurity areas, machine learning (ML) techniques have emerged as a
promising solution to detect Android malware. In this sense, many proposals employing a …

Malware detection techniques based on signature extraction require security analysts to
manually inspect samples to find evidences of malicious behavior. This time-consuming task …

Android malware applications and their detection have been under study by security experts
for quite some time, but it gained special attention since the ever-growing use of …

The various application markets are facing an exponential growth of Android malware. Every
day, thousands of new Android malware applications emerge. Android malware hackers …