  Android-based smart devices are exponentially growing, and due to the
ubiquity of the Internet, these devices are globally connected to the different
devices/networks. Its popularity, attractive features, and mobility make
malware creator to put a number of malicious apps in the market to disrupt and
annoy the victims. Although to identify the malicious apps, time-to-time
various techniques are proposed. However, it appears that malware developers
are always ahead of the anti-malware group, and the proposed techniques by the
anti-malware groups are not sufficient to counter the advanced malicious apps.
Therefore, to understand the various techniques proposed/used for the
identification of Android malicious apps, in this paper, we present a survey
conducted by us on the work done by the researchers in this field.
