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DroidSD — Android Similarity Detection

ResearchSoftware Security
Problem
App repackaging and code plagiarization in Android app markets compromise developer copyright and spread malware.
Built
Constructed an indexed feature database from disassembled Android bytecode and source structures to evaluate similarity at scale.
Outcome
Evaluated over 30,500 Android applications; published in Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2020).

Overview

A source-level clone-detection tool for identifying Type-1, Type-2, and Type-3 clones in a dataset of 30,500 Android applications.

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