Static Attribution of Android Residential Proxy Malware Using Graph Kernels

Android residential proxy applications represent a growing class of potentially-unwanted programs PUPs that covertly route third-party traffic through end-user devices, enabling ad fraud, credential abuse, and evasion of geolocation controls by sophisticated threat actors. Attributing an unknown...

Better Call Graphs: A New Dataset of Function Call Graphs for Malware Classification

Function call graphs FCGs have emerged as a powerful abstraction for malware detection, capturing the behavioral structure of applications beyond surface-level signatures. Their utility in traditional program analysis has been well established, enabling effective classification and analysis of...

FCGHunter: Towards Evaluating Robustness of Graph-Based Android Malware Detection

Graph-based detection methods leveraging Function Call Graphs FCGs have shown promise for Android malware detection AMD due to their semantic insights. However, the deployment of malware detectors in dynamic and hostile environments raises significant concerns about their robustness. While recent...