• DocumentCode
    59103
  • Title

    Thwarting Obfuscated Malware via Differential Fault Analysis

  • Author

    Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo ; Tapiador, Juan E. ; Lombardi, Floriana ; Di Pietro, Roberto

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Security Lab., Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Jun-14
  • Firstpage
    24
  • Lastpage
    31
  • Abstract
    Detecting malware in mobile applications has become increasingly complex as malware developers turn to advanced techniques to hide or obfuscate malicious components. Alterdroid is a dynamic-analysis tool that compares the behavioral differences between an original app and numerous automatically generated versions of it containing carefully injected modifications.
  • Keywords
    invasive software; mobile computing; software fault tolerance; system monitoring; Alterdroid; differential fault analysis; dynamic-analysis tool; injected modifications; malicious components; malware detection; mobile applications; obfuscated malware; Computational modeling; Fault diagnosis; Feature extraction; Malware; Payloads; Smart phones; Alterdroid; Android; automatic testing; differential fault analysis; dynamic analysis; fuzzy testing; grayware; malware; privacy; security; smartphones;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2014.169
  • Filename
    6838909
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=59103