A Novel Methodology for Analysing Malicious Behavior of the Android Applications

Abstract

Smart phones have evolved from simple mobile phones into sophisticated yet compact minicomputers. Mobile gimmicks become vulnerable to various threats such as viruses, worms, trojan horses and malwares. Until some sealed security measures like application signing and validation of developers was introduced, the number of infected applications steadily increased. Smart phones run on Android OS are one that continues to be a prime target for hackers. Our focus is mainly on Android-powered mobile device applications. In these days for smart phones, Android has become a very popular operating system. As we all aware, Android is a Linux-based operating system. With this operating system user can easily share applications via online market store i.e. Google market store. But, this platform includes different types of malicious applications. Because malware on device can create numerous risks, which create problems while connectivity because of security consequences. In this paper, it will be described that using methodology how we can analyze malicious behavior of the Android applications so that users can safely use the android smart phones.