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A Review of Hybrid Malware Detection Techniques in Android

Android is one of the most popular mobile platforms with availability of thousands of applications on Play Store. These applications help us to be productive in our daily lives and now-a-days life without smartphones cannot be imagined. Unlike other platforms, Android's open source nature gives the developers a great leverage to create many applications with very few restrictions. This also attracts malware developers to target Android platform and since Android allows installing applications from unverified sources, the risk of installing an unwanted malware application arises which can compromise Android user's privacy and personal data. Some several tools and techniques that can detect these sorts of applications before or after installation and prevents loss of valuable data. In this paper, existing malware detection techniques are explored that use hybrid approach, compared, and contrasted in detail and a useful insight is presented for future research.