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Publications (9)

cs.SE2023

DexBERT: Effective, Task-Agnostic and Fine-grained Representation Learning of Android Bytecode

Tiezhu Sun, Kevin Allix, Kisub Kim +5

The automation of a large number of software engineering tasks is becoming possible thanks to Machine Learning (ML). Central to applying ML to software artifacts (like source or ex…

cs.CR2022

A two-steps approach to improve the performance of Android malware detectors

Nadia Daoudi, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé +1

The popularity of Android OS has made it an appealing target to malware developers. To evade detection, including by ML-based techniques, attackers invest in creating malware that…

cs.SE2022

JuCify: A Step Towards Android Code Unification for Enhanced Static Analysis

Jordan Samhi, Jun Gao, Nadia Daoudi +6

Native code is now commonplace within Android app packages where it co-exists and interacts with Dex bytecode through the Java Native Interface to deliver rich app functionalities.…

cs.CR2024

DexRay: A Simple, yet Effective Deep Learning Approach to Android Malware Detection based on Image Representation of Bytecode

Nadia Daoudi, Jordan Samhi, Abdoul Kader Kabore +3

Computer vision has witnessed several advances in recent years, with unprecedented performance provided by deep representation learning research. Image formats thus appear attracti…

cs.CR2013

In-Vivo Bytecode Instrumentation for Improving Privacy on Android Smartphones in Uncertain Environments

Alexandre Bartel, Jacques Klein, Martin Monperrus +2

In this paper we claim that an efficient and readily applicable means to improve privacy of Android applications is: 1) to perform runtime monitoring by instrumenting the applicati…

cs.SE2021

A First Look at Android Applications in Google Play related to Covid-19

Jordan Samhi, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé +1

Due to the convenience of access-on-demand to information and business solutions, mobile apps have become an important asset in the digital world. In the context of the Covid-19 pa…