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The Invisible Checkpoint: Passive LTE Traffic Capture for Mobile Malware Detection

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The Invisible Checkpoint: Passive LTE Traffic Capture for Mobile Malware Detection (PDF, 4.19MB)Published: 11 Aug, 2026
Created by:
Garo Sinanian

This paper presents a privacy-preserving, field-deployable framework for passive mobile malware detection that uses an LTE-connected laptop with a controlled Wi-Fi hotspot, migrating the passive-inspection model of TinyCheck and SpyGuard from resource-constrained hardware to a scalable platform running Suricata and Zeek.

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