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A Survey of Android Malware

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Android Malware

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In this chapter, we present a survey of existing Android malware. Particularly, with more than one year effort, we have collected a large dataset of existing Android malware. Based on this dataset, we are able to systematically characterize existing Android malware from various aspects, including their installation, activation methods, and malicious payloads.

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    Android Market is now part of Google Play.

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Jiang, X., Zhou, Y. (2013). A Survey of Android Malware. In: Android Malware. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7394-7_2

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