Android malware detection a survey
Raima Zachariah, K. Akash, Mohammed Sajmal Yousef, Anu Mary Chacko · 2017
The popularity of Android mobile devices has gone up in our lives and are being used for handling a lot of our personal and confidential information. Hence t hey are now an ideal target for attackers. Android based smart-phone users can download a lot of free applications from Android Application Market/Play Store. These downloaded apps some-times contain malware applications that can take possession of private information from users. Apps in queue for launching on Play Store generally undergo an automatic security test where crawl operations like typing, tapping and swiping are performed periodically and analysis results are generated. In this survey paper, we aim to briefly discuss the different techniques used in Android malware detection and highlight their advantages and limitations.