Malware Development on Mobile Environments
Gianluca Papaleo, Enrico Cambiaso, Luca Patti, Maurizio Aiello · 2016
Mobile devices are nowadays adopted almost in every corner of the world. Being them crucial elements of people lives, in direct contact with their owners for the entire day and gathering sensitive information, they unwillingly attract cyber-criminals. The mobile malware phenomenon is currently a serious threat in this context. In this paper, we evaluate the rationale behind the development of a trojan horse: considering the Android platform, we describe the implementation and functional choices we have made by developing a mobile malware called Android Total Control.