Title :
Detecting software vulnerabilities in android using static analysis
Author :
Dhaya, R. ; Poongodi, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of CSE, Velammal Eng. Coll., Chennai, India
Abstract :
Now a day´s mobile devices like Smartphone, tablets and Personal Digital Assistants etc. were playing most essential part in our daily lives. A high-end mobile device performs the same functionality as computers. Android based smart phone has become more vulnerable, because of an open source operating system. Anyone can develop a new application and post it into android market. These types of applications were not verified by authorized company. So it may include malevolent applications it may be virus, spyware, worms, etc. which can cause system failure, wasting memory resources, corrupting data, stealing personal information and also increases the maintenance cost. Due to these reasons, the mobile phone security or mobile security is very essential one in mobile computing. In the existing system is not able to detect new viruses, due to the limitation of updated signatures. The proposed system aims to motivate static code analysis based malware detection using search based machine learning algorithm which is called N-gram analysis and it detects the unnoticed malicious characteristics or vulnerabilities in the mobile applications.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); computer viruses; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile computing; program diagnostics; public domain software; software maintenance; support vector machines; Android based smart phone; Android market; N-gram analysis; SVM; data corruption; high-end mobile device performs; maintenance cost; memory resource waste; mobile computing; open source operating system; personal digital assistants; personal information stealing; search based machine learning algorithm; software vulnerability detection; spyware; static code analysis based malware detection; support vector machine; system failure; tablets; virus; worms; Androids; Humanoid robots; Internet; Mobile communication; Security; Software; Android; CVSS; Malware; N-Gram; SVM; Static Analysis; Vulnerability;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ramanathapuram
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3913-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICACCCT.2014.7019227