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A Longitudinal Study of Cryptographic API: a Decade of Android Malware

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F22%3A00126229" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/22:00126229 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0011265300003283" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0011265300003283</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0011265300003283" target="_blank" >10.5220/0011265300003283</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    A Longitudinal Study of Cryptographic API: a Decade of Android Malware

  • Original language description

    Cryptography has been extensively used in Android applications to guarantee secure communications, conceal critical data from reverse engineering, or ensure mobile users’ privacy. Various system-based and third-party libraries for Android provide cryptographic functionalities, and previous works mainly explored the misuse of cryptographic API in benign applications. However, the role of cryptographic API has not yet been explored in Android malware. This paper performs a comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of cryptographic API in Android malware. In particular, we analyzed 603937 Android applications (half of them malicious, half benign) released between 2012 and 2020, gathering more than 1 million cryptographic API expressions. Our results reveal intriguing trends and insights on how and why cryptography is employed in Android malware. For instance, we point out the widespread use of weak hash functions and the late transition from insecure DES to AES. Additionally, we show that cryptography-related characteristics can help to improve the performance of learning-based systems in detecting malicious applications.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA20-03426S" target="_blank" >GA20-03426S: Examining and improving security of elliptic curve cryptography</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Article name in the collection

    Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography

  • ISBN

    9789897585906

  • ISSN

    2184-7711

  • e-ISSN

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    121-133

  • Publisher name

    SCITEPRESS

  • Place of publication

    Portugal

  • Event location

    Lisabon

  • Event date

    Jul 11, 2022

  • Type of event by nationality

    WRD - Celosvětová akce

  • UT code for WoS article

    000853004900010