Paper Info
Title
Evaluating Malware Mitigation by Android Market Operators.
Abstract
All Android markets are confronted with malicious apps, but they differ in how effective they deal with them. In this study, we evaluate the mitigation efforts of Google Play and four third-party markets. We define three metrics and measure how sensitive they are to different detection results from anti-virus vendors. Malware presence in three third-party markets – Liqucn, eoeMarket and Mumayi – is around ten times higher than in Google Play and Freeware Lovers. Searching for certain keywords in Google Play leads leads to a fifty times higher malware rate than those for popular apps. Finally, we measure malware survival times and find that Google Play seems to be the only market that effectively removes malware, though it contains a cluster of apps flagged as adware and malware over long time periods. This points to different incentives for app markets, anti-virus vendors and users.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
CSET @ USENIX Security Symposium
Internet privacy,Android (operating system),Incentive,Computer security,Computer science,Operator (computer programming),Malware,Adware
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.43
References 
Authors
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yosuke Kikuchi120.43
Hiroshi Mori220.43
Hiroki Nakano3416.96
Katsunari Yoshioka414722.92
Tsutomu Matsumoto51156197.58
Michel J. G. van Eeten6154.88