mobile-app-research.tech

This site hosts the datasets of our research on mobile apps. You can download datasets and get other information in following sections.

Registration Bots (ESEC/FSE ‘22)

Demystifying the Underground Ecosystem of Account Registration Bots (ESEC/FSE ‘22)

Publication

Dataset

Email

Mobile Gambling Apps (WWW ‘21)

Demystifying Illegal Mobile Gambling Apps (WWW ‘21)

This research is focuses on mobile gambling apps. In this paper, we first perform a 5-month dataset collection process to harvest illegal gambling apps in China, which includes 3,366 unique gambling apps with 5,344 different versions. We then characterize the gambling apps from various perspectives including app distribution channels, network infrastructure, malicious behaviors, abused third-party and payment services.

Publication

Our research were presented on the 30th The Web Conference. Please, use the following bibtex reference to cite our paper:

@inproceedings{gao2021demystifying,
  title={Demystifying Illegal Mobile Gambling Apps},
  author={Gao, Yuhao and Wang, Haoyu and Li, Li and Luo, Xiapu and Xu, Guoai and Liu, Xuanzhe},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021},
  pages={1447--1458},
  year={2021}
}

Dataset

For the dataset’s size, you can download our partial dataset, including 100 apks from here. If you need the entire dataset please contact us.

Email

gyh#bupt(d0t)edu(d*t)cn