DETECTING APPLICATION SIMILARITY

The subject matter of this disclosure can be implemented in, among other things, a method. In these examples, the method includes selecting for analysis by a computing device, an executable application, and identifying a group of application programming interfaces (APIs) utilized by the application when the application is executed. The method may also identifying a group of related applications that are each related to the application based on the group of APIs utilized by the application, wherein each related application of the group of related applications utilizes one or more APIs of the group of APIs utilized by the application.