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With 20 million installs a day[1],third-party apps are a major Reason for the popularity and addictiveness of Facebook. Unfortunately, hackers have realized the potential of using apps for Spreading malware and spam. The problem is already significant, aswefindthatatleast13% of apps in our data set are malicious. So far, the research community has focused on detecting malicious Posts and campaigns In this paper, we ask the question: Given a Facebook application, can we determine if it is malicious? Our key Contributionis in developing FRAppE—Facebook’s Rigorous Application Evaluator—arguably the first tool focused on detecting Malicious apps on Facebook.Todevelop FRAppE, we use information gathered by observing the posting behaviour of 111KFacebook Apps seen across 2.2million users on Facebook.First,we identify a Set of features that help us distinguish malicious apps from benignones.