Towards Automated Android App Collusion Detection
Irina Măriuca Asăvoae, Jorge Blasco, Tom Chen, Harsha Kalutarage, Igor Muttik, Hoang Nga Nguyen, Markus Roggenbach, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh · Pure (Coventry University) · 2016
Android OS supports multiple communication methods between apps. This opens the possibility to carry out threats in a collaborative fashion, c.f. the Soundcomber example from 2011. In this paper we provide a concise definition of collusion and report on a number of automated detection approaches, developed in co-operation with Intel Security.