Table 4 Primary studies

NeSeDroid–Android Malware Detection Based on Network Traffic and Sensitive Resource Accessing [45]

N.T. Cam, N.C.H. Phuoc

Analyzing Remote Server Locations for Personal Data Transfers in Mobile Apps [68]

M. Eskandari, B. Kessler, M. Ahmad, A. Santana de Oliveira, B. Crispo

MaMaDroid: Detecting Android Malware by Building Markov Chains of Behavioral Models [178]

E. Mariconti, L. Onwuzurike, P. Andriotis, E. De Cristofaro, G. Ross, G. Stringhini

Ripple: Reflection Analysis for Android Apps in Incomplete Information Environments [300]

Y Zhang, T Tan, Y Li, J Xue

AndroDialysis: Analysis of Android Intent Effectiveness in Malware Detection [75]

A. Feizollah, N. B. Anuar, R. Salleh, G. Suarez, S. Furnell

Profiling the responsiveness of Android applications via automated resource amplification [246]

Y. Wang, A. Rountev

Detecting Invalid Layer Combinations Using Control-Flow Analysis for Android [232]

N. Suzuki, T. Kamina, K. Maruyama

Graph-aided directed testing of Android applications for checking runtime privacy behaviours [127]

J.C.J. Keng, L. Jiang, T.K. Wee, R.K. Balan

Dexteroid: Detecting malicious behaviors in Android apps using reverse-engineered life cycle models [124]

M. Junaid, D. Liu, D. Kung

IacDroid: Preventing Inter-App Communication capability leaks in Android [289]

D. Zhang, R. Wang, Z. Lin, D. Guo, X. Cao

Practical, formal synthesis and automatic enforcement of security policies for android [21]

H. Bagheri, A. Sadeghi, R. Jabbarvand, S. Malek

CapaDroid: Detecting Capability Leak for Android Applications [265]

T. Wu, Y. Yang

Asynchrony-aware static analysis of Android applications [183]

A. Mishra, A. Kanade, Y.N. Srikant

Identifying Android inter app communication vulnerabilities using static and dynamic analysis [61]

B.F. Demissie, D. Ghio, M. Ceccato, A. Avancini

Towards Automatically Generating Privacy Policy for Android Apps [287]

L. Yu, T. Zhang, X. Luo, L. Xue, H. Chang

Revisiting the Description-to-Behavior Fidelity in Android Applications [285]

L. Yu, X. Luo, C. Qian, S. Wang

Triggerscope: Towards detecting logic bombs in android applications [82]

Y. Fratantonio, A. Bianchi, W. Robertson, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna

Automated test generation for detection of leaks in Android applications [292]

H. Zhang, H. Wu, A. Rountev

Automatic Construction of Callback Model for Android Application [99]

C. Guo, Q. Ye, N. Dong, G. Bai, J.S. Dong, J. Xu

Automated energy optimization of HTTP requests for mobile applications [143]

D. Li, Y. Lyu, J. Gui, W.G.J. Halfond

Understanding and detecting wake lock misuses for Android applications [168]

Y. Liu, C. Xu, S.C. Cheung, V. Terragni

Taming Android fragmentation: characterizing and detecting compatibility issues for Android apps [252]

L. Wei, Y. Liu, S.C. Cheung

Reflection-aware static analysis of Android apps [149]

L. Li, T.F. Bissyandé, D. Octeau, J. Klein

Automated testing and notification of mobile app privacy leak-cause behaviours [126]

J.C.J. Keng

Finding resume and restart errors in Android applications [220]

Z. Shan, T. Azim, I. Neamtiu

DroidRA: Taming Reflection to Support Whole-ProgramAnalysis of Android Apps [148]

L. Li, T.F. Bissyandé, D. Octeau, J. Klein

Empirical assessment of machine learning-based malware detectors for Android [8]

K. Allix, T.F. Bissyandé, Q. Jérome, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon

Effective detection of android malware based on the usage of data flow APIs and machine learning [264]

S. Wu, P. Wang, X. Li, Y. Zhang

On the Static Analysis of Hybrid Mobile Apps [38]

A.D. Brucker, M. Herzberg

Towards a Generic Framework for Automating Extensive Analysis of Android Applications [150]

L. Li, D. Li, A. Bartel, T.F. Bissyandé, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon

Static Program Analysis for Identifying Energy Bugs in Graphics-Intensive Mobile Apps [129]

C.H.P. Kim, D. Kroening, M. Kwiatkowska

Combining static analysis with probabilistic models to enable market-scale android inter-component analysis [194]

D. Octeau, S. Jha, M. Dering, P. McDaniel, A. Bartel, L. Li, Y. Le Traon

DroidNative: automating and optimizing detection of android native code malware variants [6]

S. Alam, Z. Qu, R. Riley, Y. Chen, V. Rastogi

Enabling Automatic Protocol Behavior Analysis for Android Applications [131]

J. Kim, H. Choi, H. Namkung, W. Choi, B. Choi, H. Hong, D. Han

PERUIM: Understanding Mobile Application Privacy with permission-UI Mapping [156]

Y. Li, Y. Guo, X. Chen

HybriDroid: Static analysis framework for Android hybrid applications [138]

S. Lee, J. Dolby, S. Ryu

StubDroid: automatic inference of precise data-flow summaries for the android framework [11]

S. Arzt, E. Bodden

FlowMine: Android app analysis via data flow [225]

L. Sinha, S. Bhandari, P. Faruki, M.S. Gaur, V. Laxmi, M. Conti

Debugging energy-efficiency related field failures in mobile apps [25]

A. Banerjee, H.F. Guo, A. Roychoudhury

State-Taint Analysis for Detecting Resource Bugs [272]

Z. Xu, D. Fan, S. Qin

Fixing Resource Leaks in Android Apps with Light-Weight Static Analysis and Low-Overhead Instrumentation [164]

J. Liu, T. Wu, J. Yan, J. Zhang

Relda2: an effective static analysis tool for resource leak detection in Android apps[266]

T. Wu, J. Liu, X. Deng, J. Yan, J. Zhang

Detecting energy leaks in android app with poem [79]

A. Ferrari, D. Gallucci, D. Puccinelli, S. Giordano

Lightweight measurement and estimation of mobile ad energy consumption [97]

J. Gui, D. Li, M. Wan, W.G.J. Halfond

AppContext: Differentiating Malicious and Benign Mobile App Behaviors Using Context [278]

W. Yang, X. Xiao, B. Andow, S. Li, T. Xie, W. Enck

Mining Apps for Abnormal Usage of Sensitive Data [15]

V. Avdiienko, K. Kuznetsov, A. Gorla, A. Zeller, S. Arzt, S. Rasthofer, E. Bodden

CLAPP: characterizing loops in Android applications [81]

Y. Fratantonio, A. Machiry, A. Bianchi, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna

Study and Refactoring of Android Asynchronous Programming [161]

Y. Lin, S. Okur, D. Dig

Tracking the Software Quality of Android Applications Along Their Evolution [108]

G. Hecht, O. Benomar, R. Rouvoy, N. Moha, L. Duchien

Covert Communication in Mobile Applications [211]

J. Rubin, M.I. Gordon, N. Nguyen, M.C. Rinard

Static Window Transition Graphs for Android [276]

S. Yang, H. Zhang, H. Wu, Y. Wang, A. Rountev

Static Analysis of Implicit Control Flow: Resolving Java Reflection and Android Intents [27]

P. Barros, R. Just, S. Millstein, P. Vines, W. Dietl, M. D’Amorim, M.D. Ernst

String Analysis of Android Applications [60]

J. Del Vecchio, F. Shen, K.M. Yee, B. Wang, S.Y. Ko, L. Ziarek

Interactively verifying absence of explicit information flows in Android apps [31]

O. Bastani, S. Anand, A. Aiken

ShamDroid: gracefully degrading functionality in the presence of limited resource access [40]

L. Brutschy, P. Ferrara, O. Tripp, M. Pistoia

WuKong: a scalable and accurate two-phase approach to Android app clone detection [241]

H. Wang, Y. Guo, Z. Ma, X. Chen

Reevaluating Android Permission Gaps with Static and Dynamic Analysis [242]

H. Wang, Y. Guo, Z. Tang, G. Bai, X. Chen

Andro-autopsy: Anti-malware system based on similarity matching of malware and malware creator-centric information [117]

J. Jang, H. Kang, J. Woo, A. Mohaisen, H.K. Kim

EdgeMiner: Automatically Detecting Implicit Control Flow Transitions through the Android Framework [47]

Y. Cao, Y. Fratantonio, A. Bianchi, M. Egele, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, Y. Chen

What the app is that? deception and countermeasures in the android user interface [36]

A. Bianchi, J. Corbetta, L. Invernizzi, Y. Fratantonio, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna

Scalable and Precise Taint Analysis for Android [113]

W. Huang, Y. Dong, A. Milanova, J. Dolby

AutoPPG: Towards Automatic Generation of Privacy Policy for Android Applications [284]

L. Yu, T. Zhang, X. Luo, L. Xue

Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe [92]

M.I. Gordon, D.Kim, J.H. Perkins, L.Gilham, N.Nguyen, M.C. Rinard

StaDynA: Addressing the Problem of Dynamic Code Updates in the Security Analysis of Android Applications [305]

Y. Zhauniarovich, M. Ahmad, O. Gadyatskaya, B. Crispo, F. Massacci

Potential Component Leaks in Android Apps: An Investigation into a New Feature Set for Malware Detection [145]

L. Li, K. Allix, D. Li, A. Bartel, T.F. Bissyandé, J. Klein

Static Control-Flow Analysis of User-Driven Callbacks in Android Applications [275]

S.Yang, D.Yan, H.Wu, Y.Wang, A.Rountev

Composite Constant Propagation: Application to Android Inter-Component Communication Analysis [193]

D. Octeau, D. Luchaup, M. Dering, S. Jha, P.D. McDaniel

IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps [147]

L. Li, A. Bartel, T.F. Bissyandé, J.Klein, Y. Le Traon, S. Arzt, S. Rasthofer, E. Bodden, D. Octeau, P.D. McDaniel

EcoDroid: An Approach for Energy-based Ranking of Android Apps [34]

R.J. Behrouz, A. Sadeghi, J. Garcia, S. Malek, P. Ammann

Supor: Precise and scalable sensitive user input detection for android apps [112]

J. Huang, Z. Li, X. Xiao, Z. Wu, K. Lu, X. Zhang, G. Jiang

Uipicker: User-input privacy identification in mobile applications [186]

Y. Nan, M. Yang, Z. Yang, S. Zhou, G. Gu, X. Wang

Andro Lyze: A Distributed Framework for Efficient Android App Analysis [33]

L. Baumgärtner, P. Graubner, N. Schmidt, B. Freisleben

Using text mining to infer the purpose of permission use in mobile apps [243]

H. Wang, J. Hong, Y. Guo

Static reference analysis for GUI objects in Android software [210]

A. Rountev, D. Yan

Static analysis for independent app developers [39]

L. Brutschy, P. Ferrara, P. Müller

Cochecker: Detecting capability and sensitive data leaks from component chains in android [57]

X. Cui, D. Yu, P.P.F. Chan, L.C.K. Hui, S.M. Yiu, S. Qing

Android Taint Flow Analysis for App Sets [135]

W. Klieber, L. Flynn, A. Bhosale, L. Jia, L. Bauer

Amandroid: A precise and general inter-component data flow analysis framework for security vetting of android apps [251]

F. Wei, S. Roy, X. Ou, Robby

AppSealer: Automatic Generation of Vulnerability-Specific Patches for Preventing Component Hijacking Attacks in Android Applications [295]

M. Zhang, H. Yin

Semantics-aware android malware classification using weighted contextual api dependency graphs [297]

M. Zhang, Y. Duan, H. Yin, Z. Zhao

DREBIN: Effective and Explainable Detection of Android Malware in Your Pocket [10]

D. Arp, M. Spreitzenbarth, M. Hubner, H. Gascon, K. Rieck

Retrofitting concurrency for android applications through refactoring [160]

Y. Lin, C. Radoi, D. Dig

Checking app behavior against app descriptions [93]

A. Gorla, I. Tavecchia, F. Gross, A. Zeller

Information Flows As a Permission Mechanism [224]

F. Shen, N. Vishnubhotla, C. Todarka, M. Arora, B. Dhandapani, E.J. Lehner, S.Y. Ko, L. Ziarek

Greendroid: Automated diagnosis of energy inefficiency for smartphone applications [167]

Y. Liu, C. Xu, S.C. Cheung, J. Lu

FlowDroid: Precise context-,flow-,field-,object-sensitive and lifecycle-aware taint analysis for android apps [12]

S. Arzt, S. Rasthofer, C. Fritz, E. Bodden, A. Bartel, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon, D. Octeau, P.D. McDaniel

Cassandra: Towards a Certifying App Store for Android [169]

S. Lortz, H. Mantel, A. Starostin, T. Bähr, D. Schneider, A. Weber

Code Injection Attacks on HTML5-based Mobile Apps:Characterization, Detection and Mitigation [121]

X. Jin, X. Hu, K. Ying, W. Du, H. Yin, G. Nagesh Peri

Efficient, context-aware privacy leakage confinement for android applications without firmware modding [296]

M. Zhang, H. Yin

Collaborative Verification of Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store [67]

M.D. Ernst, R. Just, S. Millstein, W. Dietl, S. Pernsteiner, F. Roesner, K. Koscher, P. Barros, R. Bhoraskar, S. Han, P. Vines, E.X. Wu

Multi-App Security Analysis with FUSE: Statically Detecting Android App Collusion [207]

T. Ravitch, E.R. Creswick, A. Tomb, A. Foltzer, T. Elliott, L. Casburn

Characterizing and detecting performance bugs for smartphone applications [166]

Y. Liu, C. Xu, S.C. Cheung

AsDroid: detecting stealthy behaviors in Android applications by user interface and program behavior contradiction [111]

J. Huang, X. Zhang, L. Tan, P. Wang, B. Liang

Apposcopy: semantics-based detection of Android malware through static analysis [78]

Y. Feng, S. Anand, I. Dillig, A. Aiken

Detecting energy bugs and hotspots in mobile apps [24]

A. Banerjee, L.K. Chong, S. Chattopadhyay, A. Roychoudhury

Static Analysis for Extracting Permission Checks of a Large Scale Framework: The Challenges and Solutions for Analyzing Android [29]

A. Bartel, J. Klein, M. Monperrus, Y. Le Traon

Responsiveness analysis tool for android application [195]

T. Ongkosit, S. Takada

Automatically exploiting potential component leaks in android applications [144]

L. Li, A. Bartel, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon

Effective inter-component communication mapping in android: An essential step towards holistic security analysis [192]

D. Octeau, P.D. McDaniel, S. Jha, A. Bartel, E. Bodden, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon

DroidAPIMiner: Mining API-level features for robust malware detection in android [1]

Y. Aafer, W. Du, H. Yin

An empirical study of cryptographic misuse in android applications [64]

M. Egele, D. Brumley, Y. Fratantonio, C. Kruegel

Targeted and depth-first exploration for systematic testing of android apps [16]

T. Azim, I. Neamtiu

Sound and precise malware analysis for android via pushdown reachability and entry-point saturation [159]

S. Liang, A.W. Keep, M. Might, S. Lyde, T. Gilray, Liang, S., Keep, A. W., Might, M., Lyde, S., Gilray, T., P. Aldous, D. Van Horn

AppIntent: analyzing sensitive data transmission in android for privacy leakage detection [282]

Z. Yang, M. Yang, Y. Zhang, G. Gu, P. Ning, X.S. Wang

AppProfiler: a flexible method of exposing privacy-related behavior in android applications to end users [209]

S. Rosen, Z. Qian, Z.M. Mao

Flow permissions for android [110]

S. Holavanalli, D. Manuel, V. Nanjundaswamy, B. Rosenberg, F. Shen, S.Y. Ko, L. Ziarek

Slicing Droids: Program Slicing for Smali Code [109]

J. Hoffmann, M. Ussath, T. Holz, M. Spreitzenbarth

A grey-box approach for automated GUI-model generation of mobile applications [277]

W. Yang, M.R. Prasad, T. Xie

Structural detection of android malware using embedded call graphs [88]

H. Gascon, F. Yamaguchi, D. Arp, K. Rieck

Estimating mobile application energy consumption using program analysis [104]

S. Hao, D. Li, W.G.J. Halfond, R. Govindan

Characterizing and detecting resource leaks in Android applications [98]

C. Guo, J. Zhang, J. Yan, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhang

Calculating source line level energy information for Android applications [142]

D. Li, S. Hao, W.G.J. Halfond, R. Govindan

Smartdroid: an automatic system for revealing ui-based trigger conditions in android applications [306]

C. Zheng, S. Zhu, S. Dai, G. Gu, X. Gong, X. Han, W. Zou

Why Eve and Mallory love Android: An analysis of Android SSL (in) security [69]

S. Fahl, M. Harbach, T. Muders, M. Smith, L. Baumgärtner, B. Freisleben

User-aware privacy control via extended static-information-flow analysis [269]

X. Xiao, N. Tillmann, M. Fähndrich, J. De Halleux, M. Moskal

Dr. Android and Mr. Hide: fine-grained permissions in android applications [118]

J. Jeon, K. K. Micinski, J. A. Vaughan, A. Fogel, N. Reddy, J. S. Foster, T. D. Millstein

LeakMiner: Detect Information Leakage on Android with Static Taint Analysis [281]

Z. Yang, M. Yang

SCANDAL: Static Analyzer for Detecting Privacy Leaks in Android Applications [130]

J. Kim, Y. Yoon, K. Yi, J. Shin, S. Center

A framework for static detection of privacy leaks in android applications [176]

C. Mann, A. Starostin

DroidChecker: analyzing android applications for capability leak [48]

P.P.F. Chan, L. C. K. Hui, S. M. Yiu

DroidMat: Android Malware Detection through Manifest and API Calls Tracing [260]

D.J. Wu, C.H. Mao, T.E. Wei, H.M. Lee, K.P. Wu

Static analysis of Android programs [200]

E. Payet, F. Spoto

Estimating Android applications’ CPU energy usage via bytecode profiling [103]

H. Hao, D. Li, W. G. J. Halfond, R. Govindan

What is keeping my phone awake?: characterizing and detecting no-sleep energy bugs in smartphone apps [198]

A. Pathak, A. Jindal, Y. Charlie Hu, S. P. Midkiff

User-centric dependence analysis for identifying malicious mobile apps [66]

K.O. Elish, D. Yao, B.G. Ryder

AndroidLeaks: automatically detecting potential privacy leaks in android applications on a large scale [90]

C. Gibler, J. Crussell, J. Erickson, H. Chen

Hey, You, Get Off of My Market: Detecting Malicious Apps in Official and Alternative Android Markets. [308]

Y. Zhou, Z. Wang, W. Zhou, X. Jiang

RiskRanker: Scalable and Accurate Zero-day Android Malware Detection [95]

M.C. Grace, Y.Zhou, Q. Zhang, S. Zou, X. Jiang

Chex: statically vetting android apps for component hijacking vulnerabilities [170]

L. Lu, Z. Li, Z. Wu, W. Lee, G. Jiang

Automatically securing permission-based software by reducing the attack surface: An application to android [28]

A. Bartel, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon, M. Monperrus

Android permissions demystified [76]

A. Porter Felt, E. Chin, S. Hanna, D. Song, D. A. Wagner:

Using static analysis for automatic assessment and mitigation of unwanted and malicious activities within Android applications [32]

L. Batyuk, M. Herpich, S. A. Çamtepe, K. Raddatz, A. D. Schmidt, S. Albayrak

Analyzing Inter-application Communication in Android [53]

E. Chin, A. Porter Felt, K. Greenwood, D. A. Wagner

PiOS: Detecting Privacy Leaks in iOS Applications [63]

M. Egele, C. Kruegel, E. Kirda, G. Vigna

Energypatch: Repairing resource leaks to improve energy-efficiency of android apps [26]

A. Banerjee, L. K. Chong, C. Ballabriga, A. Roychoudhury

A multi-view context-aware approach to Android malware detection and malicious code localization [187]

A. Narayanan, M. Chandramohan, L. Chen, Y. Liu

AndroidOff:Offloading android application based on cost estimation [51]

X. Chen, J. Chen, B. Liu, Y. Ma, Y. Zhang, H. Zhong

A SEALANT for Inter-App Security Holes in Android [139]

Y.K. Lee, J.Y. Bang, G. Safi, A. Shahbazian, Y. Zhao, N. Medvidovic

LibD: Scalable and Precise Third-party Library Detection in Android Markets [154]

M. Li, W. Wang, P. Wang, S. Wang, D. Wu, J. Liu, R. Xue, W. Huo

Self-Hiding Behavior in Android Apps: Detection and Characterization [221]

Z. Shan, I.G. Neamtiu, S. Raina

Iconintent: automatic identification of sensitive ui widgets based on icon classification for android apps [270]

X. Xiao, X. Wang, Z. Cao, H. Wang, P. Gao

Efficiently Manifesting Asynchronous Programming Errors in Android Apps [70]

L. Fan, T. Su, S. Chen, G. Meng, Y. Liu, L. Xu, G. Pu

Semi-automated Discovery of Server-Based Information Oversharing Vulnerabilities in Android Applications [136]

W. Koch, A. Chaabane, M. Egele, W. Robertson, E. Kirda

LibID: Reliable Identification of Obfuscated Third-Party Android Libraries [294]

J. Zhang, A.R. Beresford, S.A. Kollmann

ADS-SA: System for Automatically Detecting Sensitive Path of Android Applications Based on Static Analysis [228]

H. Song, D. Lin, S. Zhu, W. Wanga, S. Zhang

CDGDroid: Android malware detection based on deep learning using CFG and DFG [273]

Z Xu, K Ren, S Qin, F Craciun

Machine Learning for Android Malware Detection Using Permission and API Calls [201]

N. Peiravian, X. Zhu

IIFA: modular inter-app intent information flow analysis of android applications [235]

A. Tiwari, S. GroSS, C. Hammer

Static Back-Stack Transition Analysis for Android [163]

A. Liu, C. Guo, W. Wang, Y. Qiu, J. Xu

Android Malware Familial Classification and Representative Sample Selection via Frequent Subgraph Analysis [72]

M. Fan, J. Liu, X. Luo, K. Chen, Z. Tian, Q. Zheng, T. Liu

StateDroid: Stateful Detection of Stealthy Attacks in Android Apps via Horn-Clause Verification [125]

M. Junaid, J. Ming, D. Kung

Apkcombiner: Combining multiple android apps to support inter-app analysis [146]

L. Li, A. Bartel, T.F. Bissyandé, J. Klein, Y. Le Traon

Andarwin: Scalable detection of semantically similar android applications [56]

J. Crussell, C. Gibler, H. Chen

Appx: an automated app acceleration framework for low latency mobile app [54]

B. Choi, J. Kim, D. Cho, S. Kim, D. Han

Achieving Accuracy and Scalability Simultaneously in Detecting Application Clones on Android Markets [49]

K. Chen, P. Liu, Y. Zhang

Search-Based Energy Testing of Android [56]

R. Jabbarvand, J.W. Lin, S. Malek

TeICC: Targeted Execution of Inter-Component Communications in Android [4]

M. Ahmad, V. Costamagna, B. Crispo, F. Bergadano

API compatibility issues in Android: Causes and effectiveness of data-driven detection techniques [217]

S. Scalabrino, G. Bavota, M. Linares-Vásquez, V. Piantadosi, M. Lanza, R. Oliveto

Androlic: an extensible flow, context, object, field, and path-sensitive static analysis framework for Android [196]

L. Pan, B. Cui, J. Yan, X. Ma, J. Yan, J. Zhang

EvoDroid: Segmented Evolutionary Testing of Android Apps [175]

R. Mahmood, N. Mirzaei, S. Malek

LibRadar: Fast and Accurate Detection of Third-party Libraries in Android Apps [174]

Z. Ma, H. Wang, Y. Guo, X. Chen

Open Doors for Bob and Mallory: Open Port Usage in Android Apps and Security Implications [119]

Y.J. Jia; Q.A. Chen; Y. Lin; C. Kong; Z. Morley Mao

Finding flaws from password authentication code in Android apps [173]

S. Ma, E. Bertino, S. Nepal, J. Li, D. Ostry, R.H. Deng, S. Jha

Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications with High Precision and Recall [301]

Y. Zhang, J. Dai, X. Zhang, S. Huang, Z. Yang, M. Yang, H. Chen

EARMO: An Energy-Aware Refactoring Approach for Mobile Apps [184]

R. Morales, R. Saborido, F. Khomh, F. Chicano, G. Antoniol

DelDroid : An automated approach for determination and enforcement of least-privilege architecture in android [101]

M. Hammad, H. Bagheri, S. Malek

Lifting inter-app data-flow analysis to large app sets [215]

F. Sattler, A. von Rhein, T. Berger, N.S. Johansson, M.M. Hardø, S. Apel

Leveraging Program Analysis to Reduce User-Perceived Latency in Mobile Applications [304]

Y. Zhao, M.S. Laser, Y. Lyu, N. Medvidovic

Graph Embedding based Familial Analysis of Android Malware using Unsupervised Learning [73]

M. Fan, X. Luo, J. Liu, M. Wang, C. Nong, Q. Zheng, T. Liu

PATDroid: Permission-Aware GUI Testing of Android [212]

A. Sadeghi, R. Jabbarvand, S. Malek

Together Strong: Cooperative Android App Analysis [199]

F. Pauck, H. Wehrheim

Android testing via synthetic symbolic execution [84]

X. Gao; S.H. Tan; Z. Dong, A. Roychoudhury

Self-Protection of Android Systems from Inter-component Communication Attacks [100]

M. Hammad, J. Garcia, S. Malek

MalScan: Fast Market-Wide Mobile Malware Scanning by Social-Network Centrality Analysis [267]

W. Yueming, L. XiaoDi, Z. Deqing, Y. Wei, Z. Xin, J. Hai

Automated API-Usage Update for Android Apps [74]

M. Fazzini, Q. Xin, A. Orso

Leila: formal tool for identifying mobile malicious behaviour [46]

G. Canfora, F. Martinelli, F. Mercaldo, V. Nardone, A. Santone, C.A. Visaggio

Re-checking App Behavior against App Description in the Context of Third-party Libraries [288]

C. Zhang, H. Wang, R. Wang, Y. Guo, G. Xu

VAnDroid: A framework for vulnerability analysis of Android applications using a model-driven reverse engineering technique [190]

A. Nirumand, B. Zamani, B.T. Ladani

AnFlo: Detecting Anomalous Sensitive Information Flows in Android Apps [62]

B. Fisseha Demissie, M. Ceccato, L. Khin Shar

PaddyFrog: systematically detecting confused deputy vulnerability in Android applications [263]

J. Wu, T. Cui, T. Ban, S. Guo, L. Cui

Dalvik Opcode Graph Based Android Malware Variants Detection Using Global Topology Features [293]

J. Zhang, Z. Qin, K. Zhang, H. Yin, J. Zou

Obfusifier: Obfuscation-resistant Android malware detection system

On automatically detecting similar Android apps [158]

Z. Li, J. Sun, Q. Yan, W. Srisa-an, Y. Tsutano

Contextual policy enforcement in android applications with permission event graphs [50]

K.Z. Chen, N.M. Johnson, V. D’Silva, S. Dai, K. MacNamara, T. Magrino, E. Wu, M. Rinard, D. Song

Toward a framework for detecting privacy policy violations in android application code [226]

R. Slavin, X. Wang, M.B. Hosseini, J. Hester, R. Krishnan, J. Bhatia, T.D. Breaux, J. Niu

LUDroid: A large scale analysis of Android–Web hybridization [236]

A. Tiwari, J. Prakash, S. GroSS, C. Hammer

COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage [20]

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Data-Driven Solutions to Detect API Compatibility Issues in Android: An Empirical Study [216]

S. Scalabrino, G. Bavota, M. Linares-Vásquez, M. Lanza, R. Oliveto

Harvesting Developer Credentials in Android Apps [309]

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Learning Performance Optimization from Code Changes for Android Apps [77]

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Guided, Stochastic Model-Based GUI Testing of Android Apps [231]

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Understanding the purpose of permission use in mobile apps [244]

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Smv-hunter: Large scale, automated detection of ssl/tls man-in-the-middle vulnerabilities in android apps [230]

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Android HIV: A Study of Repackaging Malware for Evading Machine-Learning Detection [52]

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Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware [86]

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Who changed you? Obfuscator identification for Android [247]

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Enhancing the description-to-behavior fidelity in android apps with privacy policy [286]

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Static window transition graphs for Android [276]

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An Efficient, Robust, and Scalable Approach for Analyzing Interacting Android Apps [237]

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A Temporal Permission Analysis and Enforcement Framework for Android [213]

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GUILeak: Tracing Privacy Policy Claims on User Input Data for Android Applications [245]

X. Wang, X. Qin, M.B. Hosseini, R. Slavin, T. Breaux, J. Niu

Towards understanding and reasoning about android interoperations [18]

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OASIS: Prioritizing Static Analysis Warnings for Android Apps Based on App User Reviews [253]

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ServDroid: Detecting Service Usage Inefficiencies in Android Applications [229]

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TDroid: Exposing App Switching Attacks in Android with Control Flow Specialization [165]

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Characterizing and identifying misexposed activities in android applications [274]

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OAUTHLINT: An Empirical Study on OAuth Bugs in Android Applications [5]

T. Al Rahat, Y. Feng, Y. Tian

Remove RATs from Your Code: Automated Optimization of Resource Inefficient Database Writes for Mobile Applications [171]

Y. Lyu, D. Li, W.G.J. Halfond

Systematic detection of capability leaks in stock Android smartphones [96]

M.C. Grace, Y. Zhou, Z. Wang, X. Jiang

Understanding the inconsistencies between text descriptions and the use of privacy-sensitive resources of mobile apps [250]

T. Watanabe, M. Akiyama, T. Sakai, T. Mori

Refactoring Android Java Code for On-Demand Computation Offloading [299]

Y. Zhang, G. Huang, X. Liu, W. Zhang, H. Mei, S. Yang

Jitana: A modern hybrid program analysis framework for android platforms [165]

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DroidAlarm: an all-sided static analysis tool for Android privilege-escalation malware [307]

Y. Zhongyang, Z. Xin, B. Mao, L. Xie

Tackling runtime-based obfuscation in Android with TIRO [259]

M.Y. Wong, D. Lie

Grandroid: Graph-based detection of malicious network behaviors in android applications [157]

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ViewDroid: Towards obfuscation-resilient mobile application repackaging detection [290]

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Towards automatic generation of security-centric descriptions for android apps [298]

M. Zhang, Y. Duan, Q. Feng, H. Yin

DeepIntent: Deep icon-behavior learning for detecting intention-behavior discrepancy in mobile apps [268]

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SENTINEL: generating GUI tests for sensor leaks in Android and Android wear apps [262]

H. Wu, H. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. Rountev

LESDroid - A Tool for Detecting Exported Service Leaks of Android Applications [172]

J. Ma, S. Liu, Y. Jiang, X. Tao, C.Xu, J. Lu

Static detection of energy defect patterns in Android applications [261]

H.Wu, S. Yang, A. Rountev

Wechecker: efficient and precise detection of privilege escalation vulnerabilities in android apps [58]

X. Cui, J. Wang, L.C.K. Hui, Z. Xie, T. Zeng, S. Yiu

Launch-Mode-Aware Context-Sensitive Activity Transition Analysis [302]

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SIG-Droid: Automated System Input Generation for Android Applications [181]

N. Mirzaei, H. Bagheri, R. Mahmood, S. Malek

Reducing Combinatorics in GUI Testing of Android Applications [182]

N. Mirzaei, J. Garcia, H. Bagheri, A. Sadeghi, S. Malek

Detection of Design Flaws in the Android Permission Protocol Through Bounded Verification [19]

H. Bagheri, E. Kang, S. Malek, D. Jackson

Reliable third-party library detection in android and its security applications [17]

M. Backes, S. Bugiel, E. Derr

IntelliDroid: A Targeted Input Generator for the Dynamic Analysis of Android Malware [258]

M.Y. Wong, D. Lie

EnMobile: Entity-based Characterization and Analysis of Mobile Malware [279]

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Ordol: Obfuscation-Resilient Detection of Libraries in Android Applications [234]

D. Titze, M. Lux, J. Schuette

Towards model checking android applications [23]

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P. Gadient, M. Ghafari, P. Frischknecht, O. Nierstrasz

Characterizing malicious Android apps by mining topic-specific data flow signatures [280]

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Making Malory Behave Maliciously: Targeted Fuzzing of Android Execution Environments [206]

S. Rasthofer, S. Arzt, S. Triller, M. Pradel

DroidStar: Callback Typestates for Android Classes [205]

A. Radhakrishna, N.V. Lewchenko, S. Meier, S. Mover, K.C. Sripada, D. Zufferey, B.E. Chang, P. Cherny

PIVOT: Learning API-Device Correlations to Facilitate Android Compatibility Issue Detection [254]

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Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications [85]

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Neural-augmented static analysis of Android communication [303]

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Understanding and Detecting Evolution-Induced Compatibility Issues in Android Apps [106]

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Goal-Driven Exploration for Android Applications [137]

D. Lai, J. Rubin

CiD: Automating the Detection of API-related Compatibility Issues in Android Apps [152]

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QADroid: Regression Event Selection for Android Applications [223]

A. Sharma, R. Nasre

Automated analysis of privacy requirements for mobile app [310]

S. Zimmeck, Z. Wang, L. Zou, R. Iyengar, B. Liu, F. Schaub, W. Shomir, N.M. Sadeh, S.M. Bellovin, J.R. Reidenberg

apk2vec: Semi-supervised multi-view representation learning for profiling Android applications [188]

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Collusive Data Leak and More: Large-scale Threat Analysis of Inter-app Communications [37]

A. Bosu, F. Liu, D. Yao, G. Wang

Efficient, Evolutionary Security Analysis of Interacting Android Apps [22]

H. Bagheri, J. Wang, J. Aerts, S. Malek

Detecting Passive Content Leaks and Pollution in Android Applications [120]

Y.Z.X. Jiang, Z. Xuxian

Dapasa: detecting android piggybacked apps through sensitive subgraph analysis [71]

M. Fan, J. Liu, W. Wang, H. Li, Z. Tian, T. Liu

Orlis: Obfuscation-resilient library detection for Android [248]

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Juxtapp: A scalable system for detecting code reuse among android applications [102]

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A new android malware detection approach using bayesian classification [283]

S.Y. Yerima, S. Sezer, G. McWilliams, I. Muttik

Towards a Scalable Resource-driven Approach for Detecting Repackaged Android Applications [222]

Y. Shao, X. Luo, C. Qian, P. Zhu, L. Zhang

Efficiently Manifesting Asynchronous Programming Errors in Android Apps [70]

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Automatically Discovering, Reporting and Reproducing Android Application Crashes [185]

K. Moran, M. Linares-Vásquez, C. Bernal-Cárdenas; C. Vendome; D. Poshyvanyk

HornDroid: Practical and Sound Static Analysis of Android Applications by SMT Solving [44]

S. Calzavara, I. Grishchenko, M. Maffei

Android Multitasking Mechanism: Formal Semantics and Static Analysis of Apps [107]

J. He, T. Chen, P. Wang, Z. Wu, J. Yan

Privacy Leakage through Exploitation of Vulnerable Inter-App Communication on Android [177]

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Revisiting the impact of common libraries for android-related investigations [153]

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Authorship attribution of Android apps [91]

H. Gonzalez, N. Stakhanova, A.A. Ghorbani

Improving accuracy of Android malware detection with lightweight contextual awareness [7]

J. Allen, M. Landen, S. Chaba, Y. Ji, S.P.H. Chung, W. Lee

Characterizing and Detecting Inefficient Image Displaying Issues in Android Apps [155]

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