ANDROID MALWARE

Mohammed Tarwala, Munwar Hussain Shelia, Nazmuddin Mavliwala, Shabana Tadvi

Abstract: Now a day’s android devices are so common that they are used by everyone in the world. But with the commonness of the android OS and Android based devices there comes a threat to these android devices. This paper will implement some of the threats to the Android device and will also present their counter measures. First of all it will implement trivial malware attack on android device and android OS like message stealing and contact stealing, files stealing from SD card and also their solutions to prevent it. Secondly this project will perform more sophisticated attacks like whatsapp message stealing, using twitter as command and control in android devices and using Web Based Remote Exploration and Control System, denial of convenience attacks using fake access point, phishing attacks.

Keywords: Android Malware, Mobile Malware, Flaws in android Security Model, Web based exploitation, Application phishing in android.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303114