Analysis of Malicious and Benign Android Applications
(2012) 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW) p.608-616- Abstract
- Since its establishment, the Android applications market has been infected by a proliferation of malicious applications. Recent studies show that rogue developers are injecting malware into legitimate market applications which are then installed on open source sites for consumer uptake. Often, applications are infected several times. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of malicious Android applications, we present a simple and effective way to safely execute and analyze them. As part of this analysis, we use the Android application sandbox Droidbox to generate behavioral graphs for each sample and these provide the basis of the development of patterns to aid in identifying it. As a result, we are able to determine if family names... (More)
- Since its establishment, the Android applications market has been infected by a proliferation of malicious applications. Recent studies show that rogue developers are injecting malware into legitimate market applications which are then installed on open source sites for consumer uptake. Often, applications are infected several times. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of malicious Android applications, we present a simple and effective way to safely execute and analyze them. As part of this analysis, we use the Android application sandbox Droidbox to generate behavioral graphs for each sample and these provide the basis of the development of patterns to aid in identifying it. As a result, we are able to determine if family names have been correctly assigned by current anti-virus vendors. Our results indicate that the traditional anti-virus mechanisms are not able to correctly identify malicious Android applications. (Less)
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- author
- Alazab, Moutaz ; Moonsamy, Veelasha ; Batten, Lynn ; Lantz, Patrik LU and Tian, Ronghua
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Mobile malware, Treemap, Dynamic analysis, Android, Behavior graph, DroidBox
- host publication
- 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), Macau, China
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW)
- conference location
- Macau, China
- conference dates
- 2012-06-18 - 2012-06-21
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84866382195
- ISSN
- 1545-0678
- ISBN
- 978-1-4673-1423-7
- 978-1-4673-1423-7
- DOI
- 10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.13
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 5ca20d60-36b7-4c86-abc5-35726869cbe1 (old id 3629805)
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