Research Article
Uncovering the Dilemmas on Antivirus Software Design in Modern Mobile Platforms
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_27, author={Heqing Huang and Kai Chen and Peng Liu and Sencun Zhu and Dinghao Wu}, title={Uncovering the Dilemmas on Antivirus Software Design in Modern Mobile Platforms}, proceedings={International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. 10th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2014, Beijing, China, September 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II}, proceedings_a={SECURECOMM}, year={2015}, month={12}, keywords={Android Antivirus Malware Mobile attacks}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_27} }- Heqing Huang
Kai Chen
Peng Liu
Sencun Zhu
Dinghao Wu
Year: 2015
Uncovering the Dilemmas on Antivirus Software Design in Modern Mobile Platforms
SECURECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23802-9_27
Abstract
With the rapid increase in Android device popularity, a new evolving arms-race is happening between the malware writers and AntiVirus Detectors (AVDs) on the popular mobile system. In its latest comparison of AVDs, independent test lab AV-TEST reported that AVDs have around 95 % malware recognition rate. However, as mobile systems are specially designed, we consider that the power of AVDs’ should also be evaluated based on their runtime malware detection capabilities. In this work, we performed a comprehensive study on ten popular Android AVDs to evaluate the effectiveness of their scanning operations. During our analysis, we identified the design dilemmas related to two types of malware scanning operations, namely malware scan and malware scan. Our work opens a new research direction in designing more effective and efficient malware scan mechanisms for current antivirus software on mobile devices.
