A Survey on the Detection of Android Malicious Apps

Android-based smart devices are exponentially growing, and due to the ubiquity of the Internet, these devices are globally connected to the different devices/networks. Its popularity, attractive features, and mobility make malware creator to put number of malicious apps in the market to disrupt and annoy the victims. Although to identify the malicious apps, time-to-time various techniques are proposed. However, it appears that malware developers are always ahead of the anti-malware group, and the proposed techniques by the anti-malware groups are not sufficient to counter the advanced malicious apps. Therefore, to understand the various techniques proposed/used for the identification of Android malicious apps, in this paper, we present a survey conducted by us on the work done by the researchers in this field.

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