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Understanding the Service Life Cycle of Android Apps: An Exploratory Study

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Khanmohammadi, Kobra Hamou-Lhadj, Abdelwahab Rejali, Mohammad Reza
Abstract	The fast growing use of the Android platform has been accompanied with an increase of malwares in Android applications. A popular way in distributing malwares in the mobile world is through repackaging legitimate apps, embedding malicious code in them, and publishing them in app stores. Therefore, examining the similarity between the behavior of malicious and normal apps can help detect malwares due to repacking. Malicious apps operate by keeping their operations invisible to the user. They also run long enough to perform their malicious tasks. One way to detect malicious apps is to examine their service life cycle. In this paper, we examine the service life cycle of apps. We extract various features of app services. We use these features to classify over 250 normal and malicious apps. Our findings show that malicious apps tend to use services to do their malicious operation and have no communication with the other components of the app, whereas the services in normal apps are usually bound to other components and send messages to notify users about the operations they perform. The results of this exploratory study can be used in the future to design techniques for detecting malicious apps using the classification of their service features.
Starting Page	81
Ending Page	86
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450338196
DOI	10.1145/2808117.2808123
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-10-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	App repackaging Android apps Malware detection
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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