Permissions Based Android Malware Stealing Privacy Data Detection

Abstract

The large numbers of malwares steal user privacy data in the Android application market, which poses a huge threat to user privacy data. To alleviate the threat, a scheme is proposed in this paper which based on privilege-feature detection. First, we filter sensitive privilege-feature that used to achieve attack out from the built-in permissions of Android. Second, based on sensitive privilege-feature, I design a scoring formula which can used to determine if the application is malicious; Last, I implement a prototype tool base on this method. Using this tool to detect malicious applications, the experimental results show that this method is more effective than the general antivirus engine.