Evaluation of obfuscated Andriod malware

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Patel, Himanshu
  • Kapoor, Vaishali
  • Harmanjot
  • Patel, Deep
  • Narasimhan, Karthik
  • Singh,Harmanpreet
  • Ahluwalia, Jaspreet
  • Reddy, Gadi Harshitha
  • Peruboina, Sai Sushma

• Malware is rapidly spreading on mobile platforms, causing problems for users. Worldwide, 72.72% of users are using android-based smartphones. New malware is created rapidly: obfuscation techniques can evade the signaturebased mechanism implemented in current antimalware technology. This paper presents the results of a study that examines how obfuscation techniques affect malicious and benign applications by two widely used malware detection approaches, respectively static and dynamic analysis. The research looked at 5000 samples of malware and benign applications and evaluated the impact of obfuscation on Android applications. Experimental results indicated that up to 73% of the reviewed applications “survived” the obfuscation that increased their chances of evading antivirus detection.

• Date created

  2021-06-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Android
  • malware
  • obfuscation static analysis
  • dyanamic analysis
  • android virtual device
  • AVD
  • android package kit
  • APK
  • malware detection ratio

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-8jaq-jk89

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International