DySign: Dynamic Fingerprinting for the Automatic Detection of Android Malware

Understand

The astonishing spread of Android OS, not only in smartphones and tablets but also in IoT devices, makes this operating system a very tempting target for malware threats.

• Indeed, the latter are expanding at a similar rate.
• In this respect, malware fingerprints, whether based on cryptographic or fuzzy-hashing, are the first defense line against such attacks.
• Fuzzy-hashing fingerprints are suitable for capturing malware static features.