Spyware Detection in Android Using Hybridization of Description Analysis, Permission Mapping and Interface Analysis

Among all available Mobile OS, Android is an ideal target for attackers due to its huge popularity. Android provides open-source OS and also provides ability to install third party applications that poses threat of user's privacy breach. In this paper, we have a close look at permissions that are granted during installation period. We have proposed a hybrid approach for detection of malicious applications by scanning with different antivirus softwares and comparing all. This hybrid approach depends upon three parameters- Description Mapping, Interface Analysis and Source Code Analysis that defines an application's behaviour i.e. either it behaves malicious or normal.