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Search Rank Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play
2017
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Fraudulent behaviors in Google Play, the most popular Android app market, fuel search rank abuse and malware proliferation. To identify malware, previous work has focused on app executable and permission analysis. In this paper, we introduce FairPlay, a novel system that discovers and leverages traces left behind by fraudsters, to detect both malware and apps subjected to search rank fraud. FairPlay correlates review activities and uniquely combines detected review relations with linguistic and
doi:10.1109/tkde.2017.2667658
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