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cs.CRcs.LGRecentApr 24, 2026

Self-Supervised Learning for Android Malware Detection on a Time-Stamped Dataset

Annan Fu, Hao Pei, Maryam Tanha

The paper proposes a time-aware self-supervised learning framework using BYOL to improve Android malware detection robustness by accurately accounting for app release times.

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cs.CRRecentJun 2, 2026

Don't Trust Us: A privacy-by-design android malware detection pipeline

Emmanuele Massidda, Diego Soi, Giorgio Giacinto

The paper proposes a privacy-by-design pipeline for Android malware detection that achieves strong performance by avoiding the collection of sensitive user data entirely.

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cs.CRcs.SEEmpiricalRecentJul 25, 2026

From Signals to Behaviors: Evidence-Based Android Malware Detection

Shiwen Song, Yiheng Xiong, Sen Chen, Xiaofei Xie

The paper introduces Praxis, a behavior-oriented Android malware detection system that hypothesizes, confirms, and judges malicious behaviors.

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMay 7, 2026

McNdroid: A Longitudinal Multimodal Benchmark for Robust Drift Detection in Android Malware

Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol, Jesus Lopez, Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi, Emilia Rivas +4 more

The paper introduces McNdroid, a large longitudinal multimodal benchmark for Android malware, demonstrating that temporal drift significantly degrades detection performance, which is best mitigated by…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJul 22, 2026

Taming the Security-Energy Paradox: A Green AI Approach to Optimized Android Malware Detection

Shrinidhi Sridhar, Vikas K. Malviya

This paper tests different INT8 quantized Multi-Layer Perceptron models for malware detection on Android devices, achieving high accuracy with reduced energy consumption.

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cs.CRcs.SERecentApr 28, 2026

MARD: A Multi-Agent Framework for Robust Android Malware Detection

Xueying Zeng, Youquan Xian, Sihao Liu, Xudong Mou +3 more

MARD introduces a multi-agent framework that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional static analysis engines to achieve robust and highly interpretable Android malware detection with lo…

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cs.CRRecentJun 2, 2026

The Role of Domain-Specific Features in Malware Detection: A macOS Case Study

Biagio Montaruli, Andrea Oliveri, Savino Dambra, Davide Balzarotti

This paper introduces a novel malware detection system for macOS by utilizing domain-specific static features, achieving state-of-the-art performance and demonstrating strong generalization capabiliti…

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cs.LGcs.CRRecentMar 30, 2026

Label-efficient Training Updates for Malware Detection over Time

Luca Minnei, Cristian Manca, Giorgio Piras, Angelo Sotgiu +5 more

The paper proposes a model-agnostic framework to evaluate combining Active Learning (AL) and Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques for malware detection, demonstrating that these combined methods…

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMay 24, 2026

SEED: Semi-supervised Continual MalwarE Detection for Tackling ConcEpt Drift on a BuDget

Suresh Kumar Amalapuram, Bikraj Shresta, Siva Ram murthy Chebiyam, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma +1 more

The paper proposes SEED, a novel semantic-structure-agnostic semi-supervised continual learning method that significantly improves malware detection performance under limited labeling by leveraging re…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 22, 2026

Concept Drift Adaptation Using Self-Supervised and Reinforcement Learning In Android Malware Detection

Ahmed Sabbah, Mohammad Kharma, Mohammad Alkhanafseh, Radi Jarrar +2 more

The paper proposes a cost-aware, adaptive maintenance framework using Reinforcement Learning (RL) and self-supervised learning to mitigate performance degradation (concept drift) in Android malware de…

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentMay 10, 2026

FreeMOCA: Memory-Free Continual Learning for Malicious Code Analysis

Zahra Asadi, Haeseung Jeon, Sohyun Han, Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol +2 more

FreeMOCA is a memory- and compute-efficient continual learning framework that uses adaptive layer-wise interpolation in parameter space to prevent catastrophic forgetting when analyzing evolving malwa…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 22, 2026

Adversarial Vulnerability Under Temporal Concept Drift: A Longitudinal Study of Android Malware Detection

Ahmed Sabbah, Mohammed Kharma, Radi Jarrar, Samer Zein +1 more

This study longitudinally evaluates the adversarial robustness of Android malware detection systems over a decade, finding that temporal separation significantly degrades robustness due to concept dri…

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cs.CRRecentApr 30, 2026

Static Attribution of Android Residential Proxy Malware Using Graph Kernels

Peter Clark, Yong Guan, Zhonghao Liao

The paper introduces a static analysis pipeline using graph kernels to automatically attribute unknown Android proxy malware to specific commercial proxy networks with high accuracy.

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cs.CRcs.NIcs.SERecentApr 15, 2026

AndroScanner: Automated Backend Vulnerability Detection for Android Applications

Harini Dandu

AndroScanner is an automated pipeline that detects backend vulnerabilities in Android applications by combining static and dynamic analysis, successfully identifying a zero-day Excessive Data Exposure…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.LGRecentJun 2, 2026

A Hybrid Approach For Malware Classification Using Secondary Features Fusion

Raja Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Mustaqeem, Haroon Elahi

This paper proposes a hybrid feature fusion and voting-based approach for automated malware detection and classification into specific malware families, achieving high performance metrics like an AUC…

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cs.SEcs.CREmpiricalRecentJun 12, 2026

Evaluating LLMs for Obfuscation Detection and Classification in Android Apps

Luca Ferrari, Marco Alecci, Jordan Samhi, Tegawende' F. Bissyande' +3 more

This paper investigates the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to detect obfuscation in Android apps through semantic reasoning.

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cs.CRRecentApr 30, 2026

WOOTdroid: Whole-system Online On-device Tracing for Android

Simon Althaus, Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Max Mühlhäuser, Christian Reuter +1 more

WOOTdroid is a novel, non-invasive system for comprehensive on-device tracing on stock Android that simultaneously addresses syscall data loss and the semantic gap in Binder IPC events.

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cs.CRRecentApr 22, 2026

Image-Based Malware Type Classification on MalNet-Image Tiny: Effects of Multi-Scale Fusion, Transfer Learning, Data Augmentation, and Schedule-Free Optimization

Ahmed A. Abouelkhaire, Waleed A. Yousef, Issa Traor

The paper investigates improving 43-class malware type classification on MalNet-Image Tiny by evaluating the combined effects of multi-scale feature fusion, transfer learning, advanced data augmentati…

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cs.CRRecentApr 25, 2026

AsmRAG: LLM-Driven Malware Detection by Retrieving Functionally Similar Assembly Code

ElMouatez Billah Karbab

AsmRAG is a novel framework that improves malware detection by treating it as an evidence-based retrieval task using a code-specialized LLM, achieving high accuracy while providing transparent forensi…

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cs.CRcs.LGRecentApr 30, 2026

Trident: Improving Malware Detection with LLMs and Behavioral Features

Rebecca Saul, Jingzhi Jiang, Elliott Chia, David Wagner

The paper introduces Trident, a novel malware detection system that combines static features, LLM-derived behavioral rules, and direct LLM analysis to achieve superior robustness against concept drift…

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