Spyware Detection in Android Using Hybridization of Description Analysis, Permission Mapping and Interface Analysis
Parmjit Kaur, Sumit Sharma · Procedia Computer Science · 2015
Among all available Mobile OS, Android is an ideal target for attackers due to its huge popularity. Android provides open-source OS and also provides ability to install third party applications that poses threat of user's privacy breach. In this paper, we have a close look at permissions that are granted during installation period. We have proposed a hybrid approach for detection of malicious applications by scanning with different antivirus softwares and comparing all. This hybrid approach depends upon three parameters- Description Mapping, Interface Analysis and Source Code Analysis that defines an application's behaviour i.e. either it behaves malicious or normal.