Android malware detection collapses when the context stage comes out

A phone backup app asks for storage, contacts, SMS, and call logs. A device-management tool asks for more than that. Run either one past a machine learning malware scanner and it comes back flagged. Six Android detectors in wide research use, including Drebin, MalScan, and MaskDroid, produced that result on more than half the apps in a benign test set assembled from 49 Google Play categories. The worst performer, an LLM-based detector called LAMD, flagged … More →

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