AndRadar: Fast Discovery of Android Applications in Alternative Markets

摘要: Compared to traditional desktop software, Android applications are delivered through software repositories, commonly known as application markets. Other mobile platforms, such Apple iOS and BlackBerry OS also use the marketplace model, but what is unique existence of a plethora alternative This complicates task detecting tracking malware. Identifying malicious in one particular market simply not enough, many instances this may exist other To quantify phenomenon, we exhaustively crawled 8 markets between June November 2013. Our findings indicate that host large number ad-aggressive apps, non-negligible amount malware, some even allow authors publish apps without prompt action.