Suspicious Permissions Detection of Covid-19 Themed Malicious Android Applications
Monika Sharma, Ajay Kaul · 2023
The malicious actors continuously produce malicious Android applications with a COVID-19 theme in the context of the pandemic. Users frequently grant the necessary permissions to install those phoney apps without paying much attention. Android permissions are essential points of weakness. Major privacy issues often result from this vulnerability. Hackers with malicious intent have viewed the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to conduct malware attacks to profit financially and advance their nefarious goals. Through COVID-19-related content, people are becoming victims of phishing scams. The android malware seen explicitly during the pandemic of Covid-19 is discussed in this study, and we next analyze malware detection methods with a focus on these Covid-19-themed malware mobile applications. This research paper attempts to identify dangerous android permissions and the malware families that erupted during the Covid-19 outbreak.