A Survey on Android Malwares and Defense Techniques

摘要

Since the last few years, Android is by far the most widely utilized as an operating system for mobile devices, and this is accompanied by the development in terms of number and variety of different Android applications. Android offers a centralized market place maintained by Google named "Google Play Store," where official and third party application developers can submit their Android applications to make them available for users. The high popularity of Android OS and its market place is becoming a worthy target by hackers and attackers to violate users' privacy and security. Malwares were also growing in parallel with Android applications growth. It is necessary as a first step to have a solid understanding of malwares' characteristics to help preventing potential harmful consequences. Whithin this paper, we initially present the general overview for Android OS architecture with application structure, then we highlight the popular Android security issues and focus on the existing solutions to detect and prevent Android malwares, finally, we present our point of view and suggestion for future works on the best solution to overcome the Android malwares.