Title :
Identifying Android malware instructions
Author :
Morales Medina, Laura Victoria ; Rueda, Sandra Julieta
Author_Institution :
Syst. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. de los Andes, Andes, Colombia
Abstract :
Android is a very attractive platform for malware developers because it is widely used. There is a need to understand how malware works and how it can exploit a system´s security architecture. To do so, this work decompiles Android malware applications to study their source code and to look for patterns, regarding instructions, method calls, and permission usage. The goal is to define a set of instruction-based signatures that identify dangerous behavior and to use the identified signatures as a base for developing tools for code analysis.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); invasive software; smart phones; source code (software); Android malware instruction identification; code analysis; dangerous behavior; instruction-based signatures; malware developers; source code; system security architecture; Androids; Humanoid robots; Java; Malware; Receivers; Smart phones; permission management; smartphone security;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (LATINCOM), 2014 IEEE Latin-America Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena de Indias
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6737-7
DOI :
10.1109/LATINCOM.2014.7041862