Open AccessRAPID-Risk Assessment of Android Permission and Application Programming Interface (API) Call for Android Botnet
Author(s) -
Zubaile Abdullah,
Madihah Mohd Saudi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-524X
DOI - 10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.21370
Subject(s) - android (operating system) , botnet , permission , computer science , computer security , confidentiality , internet privacy , world wide web , operating system , the internet , political science , law
Android applications may pose risks to smartphone users. Most of the current security countermeasures for detecting dangerous apps show some weaknesses. In this paper, a risk assessment method is proposed to evaluate the risk level of Android apps in terms of confidentiality (privacy), integrity (financial) and availability (system). The proposed research performs mathematical analysis of an app and returns a single easy to understand evaluation of the app’s risk level (i.e., Very Low, Low, Moderate, High, and Very High). These schemes have been tested on 2488 samples coming from Google Play and Android botnet dataset. The results show a good accuracy in both identifying the botnet apps and in terms of risk level.