Control dependency analyses for detecting remote control Android malware

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A method is given to detect remote control Android malware using a control dependency analysis based on real-world malware characteristics. The malware is detected using dynamic taint analysis. An extended dynamic taint analysis method is used to detect remote control malware. A static analysis is used first to identify the control range of the conditional instructions, and the static instrumentation technique insered into the target application to track the control dependence. The instrumented application can then check whether the current sensitive operation depends on the tainted data at runtime. Then users can then effectively analyze and detect remote control malware. A prototype system based on the method shows that this method effectively detects real remote control malware.

Keywords remote control malware dynamic taint analysis control dependence

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Issue Date: 15 January 2014

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	Jingzhe LI
	Bin LIANG
	Wei YOU
	Peng WANG
	Wenchang SHI

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Jingzhe LI,Bin LIANG,Wei YOU, et al. Control dependency analyses for detecting remote control Android malware[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2014, 54(1): 8-13.

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