Android Operating System, by Open Handset
Alliance, prominently led by Google is dominating the share of
smart phones. Mobile applications like banking, e-shopping,
business apps used on these devices have become foundational
tool for today’s workforce.
However the Smartphone users are under continuous threat
of exposure and misuse of their personal information due to
rapid growth of malware for android which significantly
exceeds that of other platforms. Android being open platform
supports the development of applications. Now a day’s one can
publish an app after registration as a developer for USD25.
Due to its availability to all android users, the android market
is the main channel of malware distribution. Along with its
growth, the importance of security has also risen. A
proportional increase in the number of vulnerabilities is also
happening to the extent that there are limited numbers of
security applications available to protect these devices. Among
the security apps many antivirus which work on the
application layer are present in the market which claims the
security.
However, the efficacies of these applications have not been
empirically established. After studying the shortcomings and
demerits of the available solutions, an enhanced security
solution for android application assessment at the operating
system level is suggested. The solution customizes the android
operating system mainly the package manager which holds the
notification of the activities which takes place on the device.
The package manager is updated to receive the intent passed
by the verification agent activity. An application is built which
is hooked to the package manager which checks across the
database signatures for the malwares and blocks the
installation process of the android application on the system.
Altogether a new android system image is compiled and tested
across the known set of malwares. Unlike antivirus, this check
takes place before the process of installation due to which, we
are able to mitigate attacks caused by malwares on android
smart phones by variety of applications.
Real Time Impact Factor:
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Author Name: Aparna Bhonde, Madhumita Chatterjee
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Keywords: Android, smartphones, application security, malware detection.
ISSN: 2347-5552
EISSN: 2347-5552
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