Underground economy of android application plagiarism

摘要: As Android became the most popular mobile operating system, malicious activities targeting and its applications are rising rapidly. While technical approaches may mitigate attacks with varying effectiveness, understanding economic incentives of criminals shed light on effective defense. In this talk, I will focus application plagiarism markets. First, describe unique characteristics android applications, fundamental differences between that non-mobile software, relationship advertising. Next, illustrate challenges in measuring scale, severity, impact plagiarism. To achieve this, we need not only detect among large number different markets but also measure their usage advertising a large, live network. how correlated plagiarized detected through static analysis to traffic captured characterize properties cloned including distribution across markets, categories, libraries. examine affect original developers, estimate revenue user base have siphoned from developers. Finally, discuss defenses against