Title :
Android platform based linux kernel rootkit
Author :
You, Dong-Hoon ; Noh, Bong-Nam
Abstract :
Android with linux kernel is on its way to be a standard platform of various smart devices. Therefore, Android platform based linux kernel rootkit will be a major security threat to smart phones, tablet PCs, smart TVs and so on. Although there is an urgent need of remedy for this threat, no solution or even a suitable study has been announced. In this paper, we are going to depict some rootkits which exploit android kernel by taking advantage of LKM(loadable kernel module) and /dev/kmem device access technology and discuss the danger the rootkit attack would bring.
Keywords :
Linux; mobile handsets; notebook computers; operating system kernels; security of data; Android platform based linux kernel rootkit; LKM; device access technology; loadable kernel module; rootkit attack; smart TVs; smart devices; smart phone security threat; tablet PCs; Androids; Humanoid robots; Kernel; Linux; Smart phones; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE), 2011 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fajardo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0031-5
DOI :
10.1109/MALWARE.2011.6112330
