Anjana Susarla is a professor of Responsible AI at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

In the current internet era, where mobile devices are ubiquitous and often hold sensitive personal and corporate data, Android malware analysis is crucial to protect against the increasing ...

Here, step-by-step guidelines have been elaborated to perform reverse engineering in any Android application package (APK) to extract the real permission feature from the Android disassembled code.

Furthermore, while the cited implementations target the parallelization of the baseline FP-Growth algorithm, the version developed in this work is custom-tailored for the use in the SPADE method.

While SPADE is in most parts implemented using Python, for the FP-Growth algorithm, the highly optimized C-implementation PyFIM 6, developed by Christian Borgelt, is used (Borgelt and Picado-Muiño, ...