ANDROID MALWARE DETECTION USING META-INFORMATION

Abstract

Since the android technology has provided us a vast range of benefits and because of staggering development of Internet utilization for almost 2 decades, everyday several new mobile applications are developed and introduced which is becoming a part of our daily life. Since technology is changing rapidly and by the time new android version is coming with lots offeatures day by day the number of malicious users are also increasing at the same time. We know that android is an open-source environment it has a lot of security issues and threats, so by understanding these security risks we want to introduce a light-weighted android application for every smartphone assisting them in detecting of malwares and securing their sensitive data. Android versatile stage gives both framework assessment and convenience study. When we download an APK file in android so there might be some malicious activities which are operated with the android smartphone. So to overcome it we are developing this app to help the users to secure their sensitive data by preventing the malware to access user's personal or sensitive information. It is basically the methodology that performs apps security and focuses on malware detection in our android smartphones. Since Android Technology has provided us a vast range of benefits and because ofstaggering development of Internet utilization for almost 2 decades, everyday several new mobile applications are developed and introduced which is becoming a part of our daily life.