Datasets| Karim Elish

DroidMalVet

Karim Elish, Mahmoud Elish, and Hussain Almohri.

Android malware family dataset with compact code-level metrics for malware family detection, characterization, and analysis.

Android Malware Code Metrics Malware Families

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@ARTICLE{DroidMalVet,
  author  = {Elish, Karim and Elish, Mahmoud and Almohri, Hussain},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computers},
  title   = {Lightweight, Effective Detection and Characterization of Mobile Malware Families},
  year    = {2022},
  volume  = {71},
  number  = {11},
  pages   = {2982--2995}
}

AndroMetric

Sebastian Siedler and Karim Elish.

Android app metrics dataset for malware-risk analysis, empirical software analytics, and security-oriented predictive modeling.

Android Metrics Malware Risk Software Analytics

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@inproceedings{AndroMetric,
  author    = {Sebastian Siedler and Karim Elish},
  title     = {AndroMetric: Bridging Multi-Dimensional Software Metrics and Mobile Application Security},
  booktitle = {23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)},
  year      = {2026}
}

WearAppSec

Sebastian Siedler, Mohamed Sylla, and Karim Elish.

Security dataset for wearable companion mobile applications, supporting wearable app security assessment.

Wearables Mobile Security OWASP MASVS

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@dataset{WearAppSec,
  author    = {Sebastian Siedler, Mohamed Sylla, and Karim Elish},
  title     = {WearAppSec: Wearable Mobile App Security Dataset},
  publisher = {IEEE DataPort},
  year      = {2026}
}

SMELLDroid

Joyce Champie, Karim Elish, and Mahmoud Elish.

Large-scale Android code smell dataset for maintainability, software quality, and comparative app analysis.

Code Smells Maintainability Android Apps

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@inproceedings{SMELLDroid,
  author    = {Joyce Champie and Karim Elish and Mahmoud Elish},
  title     = {SMELLDroid: A Dataset for Code Smells in Android Apps},
  booktitle = {23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)},
  year      = {2026}
}

MIRROR

Sebastian Siedler and Karim Elish.

Structural metrics dataset for original and repackaged Android applications, supporting reuse, repackaging, and structural similarity analysis.

Repackaging Structural Metrics Software Reuse

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@inproceedings{MIRROR,
  author    = {Sebastian Siedler and Karim Elish},
  title     = {MIRROR: A Dataset of Structural Metrics for Repackaged Android Apps},
  booktitle = {3rd ACM International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering},
  year      = {2026}
}

MVCDroid

Mohamed Sylla and Karim Elish.

Architectural MVC-separation dataset for Android security studies, structural analysis, and architecture-level empirical research.

Architecture MVC Separation Android Security

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@inproceedings{MVCDroid,
  author    = {Mohamed Sylla and Karim Elish},
  title     = {Rethinking MVC Violations as Security-Aware Architectural Smells in Android Applications},
  booktitle = {23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture},
  year      = {2026}
}