Disclosed herein are systems and methods for categorizing an application on a computing device including gathering a set of attributes of an application. The set of attributes of the application includes at least one of: a number of files in an application package of the application; a number of executable files in the application package; numbers and types of permissions being requested; a number of classes in the executable files in the application package; and a number of methods in the executable files in the application package. sending the gathered set of attributes to a trained classification model. The application is classified, using the classification model, based on the gathered set of attributes by generating one or more probabilities of the application belonging to respective one or more categories of applications. A category of the application is determined based on the generated one or more probabilities.