An antivirus API for Android malware recognition

Proceedings of the 2013 8th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software: "The Americas", MALWARE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 77-84

  Fedler, Rafael ^a   Kulicke, Marcel ^a   Schutte, Julian ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER AISEC   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER CRIME; DATA PRIVACY; FILE ORGANIZATION;

ANDROID MALWARE; ANDROID PLATFORMS; ANTI-VIRUS SYSTEMS; ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARES; BASIC OPERATION; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; MALICIOUS CODES; SECURITY ARCHITECTURE;

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EID: 84893790582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MALWARE.2013.6703688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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