Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/578146
Title: Android botnets: a serious threat to android devices
Authors: Shahid Anwar
Mohamad Fadli Zolkipli
Zakira Inayat (UM)
Julius Odili
Mushtaq Ali
Jasni Mohamad Zain (UITM)
Keywords: Android botnets
Malware
Detection techniques
DDoS attacks
Mobile security
Issue Date: Jan-2018
Description: Android devices have gained a lot of attention in the last few decades due to several reasons including ease of use, effectiveness, availability and games, among others. To take advantage of Android devices, mobile users have begun installing an increasingly substantial number of Android applications on their devices. Rapid growth in many Android devices and applications has led to security and privacy issues. It has, for instance, opened the way for malicious applications to be installed on the Android devices while downloading different applications for different purposes. This has caused malicious applications to execute illegal operations on the devices that result in malfunction outputs. Android botnets are one of these malfunctions. This paper presents Android botnets in various aspects including their security, architecture, infection vectors and techniques. This paper also evaluates Android botnets by categorising them according to behaviour. Furthermore, it investigates the Android botnets with respect to Android device threats. Finally, we investigate different Android botnet detection techniques in depth with respect to the existing solutions deployed to mitigate Android botnets.
News Source: Pertanika Journals
ISSN: 0128-7680
Volume: 26
Pages: 37-70
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
Appears in Collections:Journal Content Pages/ Kandungan Halaman Jurnal

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