Rebooting Research on Detecting Repackaged Android Apps: Literature Review and Benchmark

Repackaging is a serious threat to the Android ecosystem as it deprives app developers of their benefits, contributes spreading malware on users' devices, and increases workload market maintainers. In space six years, research around this specific issue has produced 57 approaches which do not readily scale millions apps or are only evaluated private datasets without, in general, tool support available community. Through systematic literature review subject, we argue that slowing down, where many state-of-the-art have reported high-performance rates closed datasets, unfortunately difficult replicate compare against. work, propose reboot repackaged detection by providing summarises challenges current solutions for detecting large dataset supports replications existing implications new directions. We hope these contributions will re-activate direction spark innovative going beyond state-of-the-art.