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

摘要

Context: State-of-the-art works on automated detection of Android malware have leveraged app descriptions to spot anomalies w.r.t the functionality implemented, or have used data flow information as a feature to discriminate malicious from benign apps. Although these works have yielded promising performance, we hypothesize that these performances can be improved by a better understanding of malicious behavior.