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Android Malware Infection Analysis
This topic covers the a inexpensive method of analyzing infection rate in android mobile. This method can also be used as malware risk indicator.
PRAVEEN KUMAR
MNIT Jaipur
2010UCP206
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ABSTARCT
The popularity and use of smart phone in daily life is increasing exponentially. So today we depend much on our phone and even store very important data on our phone. So it becomes very important to cope up with challenge posed due to malicious software or notoriously known as malware. But to prevent our phone and develop malware detecting software it is very important to understand the behavior of these malware .Keeping that in mind this paper aims to have a understanding of –what is malware and its distribution in android smart phone as android phone covers a large proportion of smart phone built today. This paper also discusses a study carried by Berkley University for malware infection rate and a popular app “Carat” used for study. Then we list the algorithm used and our implementation of algorithm. We also propose an app developed for the specific purpose.
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INDEX Page No
1. INTRODUCTION 4
2. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE 6
3. DATASET 9
4. INFECTION RATE CALCULATION 10
5. INFECTION RATE ANALYSIS 11
6. DIFFERNCE IN TWO ANALYSIS MECHANISM 12
7. PROPOSED APP 13
8. FUTURE SCOPE 14
9. CONCLUSION 15
REFERENCES 16
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1. INTRODUCTION
Today android is most used operating system. So there is a hearsay popularity draws attention. So increasing popularity of android has drawn attention of hacker and miscreant as well .As a result a large no of malware app are developed and distributed every day. But before proceeding further let’s have a quick understanding of malware and how it is different from bug application.
Why and...
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References:-
1) The$Company$You$Keep: $Mobile$Malware$Infection$Rate$and$Inexpensive Risk Indicators by Berkley university
2) A Survey of Mobile Malware in the Wild by Adrienne Porter Felt, Matthew Finifter, Erika Chin, Steven Hanna, and David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
3) Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution by Yajin Zhou, Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University
4) Genome Malware project
- http://www.malgenomeproject.org/
5) Google developer
- http://developer.android.com/
- Signing of application http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/appsigning.html#signing 6) Lookout malware prediction
- https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2012/12/13/2013-mobile-threat-predictions/
7) Update from the Google CEO Larry Page
- http://googleblog.blogspot.fi/2013/03/update-fromceo.html
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