| Authors: | Damopoulos D., Kambourakis G., Gritzalis S., Sang Oh Park S. |
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| Title: | Lifting the veil on mobile malware: A complete dynamic solution for iOS |
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| Conference: | The 2012 Summer FTRA International Symposium on Advances in Cryptography, Security and Applications for Future Computing (ACSA-Summer) |
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| To appear: | No |
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| Month: | June |
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| Year: | 2012 |
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| Place: | Vancouver, Canada |
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| Pubisher: | FTRA |
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| Link: | http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/publication_files/conference/195992784.pdf |
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| File name: | Lifting the veil on mobile malware_A complete dynamic solution for iOS.pdf##^^&&195992784.pdf |
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| Abstract: | It is without a doubt that malware especially designed for modern mobile platforms is rapidly becoming a serious threat. So far, research for dealing with this risk has concentrated on the Android platform and mainly considered static solutions rather than dynamic ones. Compelled by this fact, in this paper, we contribute a fully-fledged tool able to dynamically analyze any iOS software in terms of method invocation (i.e., which API methods the application invokes and under what order), and produce exploitable results that can be used to manually or automatically trace its behavior to decide if it contains malicious code or not. By employing real life malware we assessed our tool both manually as well as via heuristic techniques and the results we obtained are highly accurate in detecting malicious code. |
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