# PACER: Platform for Android Malware Classification, Performance Evaluation and Threat Reporting +
## 1 Introduction
It must be noted that the _PACER_ does not improve the performance of any individual Android malware detection techniques, but collectively it will help to design, develop, and share detection techniques to the users (researchers, end users, and product developers). The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we describe the related literature and summarize research gaps. In Section 3, we describe the architecture and other components of the proposed framework. A detailed description of the original system _PACE_ is presented in Section 4, upon which we build substantially improved _PACER_. The experimental setup and implementation details are elaborated in Section 5. Finally, the paper is concluded in Section 6. \begin{table}
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**Platform** & **Features** & **Open-Source** & **ML-Based** & **Status** \\ \hline VirusTotal (https://www. virustotal.com/) & Scan with Commercial AV & No & No & Active \\ \hline Apkdetect (https:// www.apkdetect.com) & Android malware analysis and classification & No & No & Limited Access \\ \hline AndroZoo ([[https://androzoo.uni.lu/](https://androzoo.uni.lu/)]([https://androzoo.uni.lu/](https://androzoo.uni.lu/))) & Android Dataset and Analysis & No & No & Only Dataset Access \\ \hline Mobile-Sandbox (http://mobilesandbox. org) & Analysis and Forensic Features extraction & Yes ([[https://github.com/mspreitz/mobile-sandbox](https://github.com/mspreitz/mobile-sandbox)]([https://github.com/mspreitz/mobile-sandbox](https://github.com/mspreitz/mobile-sandbox))) & No & Outdated \\ \hline NVISO ApkScan ([[https://apkscan.nviso.be/](https://apkscan.nviso.be/)]([https://apkscan.nviso.be/](https://apkscan.nviso.be/))) & Static and Dynamic Scanning & No & No & Going Offline ([[https://blog.nviso.be/2019/10/01/sunsetting-nviso-apkscan/](https://blog.nviso.be/2019/10/01/sunsetting-nviso-apkscan/)]([https://blog.nviso.be/2019/10/01/sunsetting-nviso-apkscan/](https://blog.nviso.be/2019/10/01/sunsetting-nviso-apkscan/))) \\ \hline JoeSandbox ([[https://www.joesandbox](https://www.joesandbox)]([https://www.joesandbox](https://www.joesandbox)). com/\#android) & Analysis and Detection & No & No & Limited Access \\ \hline MobSF ([[https://github.com/MobSF/](https://github.com/MobSF/)]([https://github.com/MobSF/](https://github.com/MobSF/)) Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF) & Static and Dynamic Analysis & Yes & No & Active (Local Machine) \\ \hline SandDroid ([[http://sanddroid.xitu](http://sanddroid.xitu)]([http://sanddroid.xitu](http://sanddroid.xitu)). edu.cn) & Static and Dynamic Analysis & No & No & Active \\ \hline AMaaaS ([[https://amaaas.com](https://amaaas.com)]([https://amaaas.com](https://amaaas.com))) & Static and Dynamic Analysis & No & No & Active \\ \hline AVC UnDroid ([[https://undroid.av-comparatives.org/about.php](https://undroid.av-comparatives.org/about.php)]([https://undroid.av-comparatives.org/about.php](https://undroid.av-comparatives.org/about.php))) & Static Analysis & No & No & Active \\ \hline _PACE_ & Analysis and Detection & Yes & Yes & Active \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Online Platform Related to Android Malware.