A Review and Case Study on Android Malware: Threat Model, Attacks, Techniques and Tools

Abstract

As android devices have increased in number in the past few years, the android operating system has started dominating the smartphone market. The vast spread of android across all the devices has made security an important issue as the android users continue to grow exponentially. The security of android platform has become the need of the hour in view of increase in the number of malicious apps and thus several studies have emerged to present the detection approaches. In this paper, we review the android components to propose a threat model that illustrates the possible threats that are present in the android. We also present the attack taxonomy to illustrate the possible attacks at various layers of the android architecture. Experiments demonstrating the feature extraction and classification using machine earning algorithms have also been performed.

Exploring Android Security Landscape: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Best Practices

“…Negi C et al [5] conducted a review and case study on Android malware, including the threat model, attacks, techniques, and tools. The study discusses Android devices' growing prominence in the smartphone market, as well as growing concerns about their security as malicious apps become more prevalent.…”