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 the android platform has become the need of the hour because of an increase in the number of malicious apps and thus several studies have emerged to present the detection approaches. In this paper, the android components have been reviewed to propose a threat model that illustrates the possible threats that are present in the android. The researchers 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.