Analysis and Detection of Android Malware with a special focus on Droid KungFu
Mustafi zur Rohman (RWTH Aachen)
Thursday, 17 April 2014, 15:00, b-it 1.25 (cosec meeting room)
In this talk, I will present the fi ndings of my master thesis carried out at CoSec during winter term 2013/14.
Smartphone malware being already a very fast-rising global concern has attracted the attention of researchers world-wide to develop robust-analysis and future-proof detection methods. In this talk, I will fi rst present a survey of state-of-the-art detection mechanisms for smartphone malware. It will be followed by a detailed analysis of Droid KungFu.
Droid KungFu is one of the most advanced samples of Android malware ever discovered. After the survey, I will present an analysis of Droid KungFu obtained using some of the available malware analysis tools. Finally, I will present the results obtained from reverse engineering of samples of Droid KungFu. This reverse engineering helped us in understanding how this malware employs cryptography maliciously. The analysis can aid the development of next-generation malware detection techniques.