Method and apparatus for robust mobile application fingerprinting

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for fingerprinting an application, the operations comprising:

• analyzing an application binary of the application;
• extracting an invariant feature from the application binary;
• generating a signature from the invariant feature;
• and
• comparing the signature of the application to a second signature of a second application to determine if the application and the second application are similar.

An apparatus for fingerprinting an application, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable medium in communication with the processor, wherein the computer-readable medium has stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• analyzing an application binary of the application;
• extracting an invariant feature from the application binary;
• generating a signature from the invariant feature;
• and
• comparing the signature of the application to a second signature of a second application to determine if the application and the second application are similar.