FairPlay: Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play

摘要: Fraudulent behaviors in Google Android app market fuel search rank abuse and malware proliferation. We present FairPlay, a novel system that uncovers both fraud apps, by picking out trails fraudsters leave behind. To identify suspicious FairPlay PCF algorithm correlates review activities uniquely combines detected relations with linguistic behavioral signals gleaned from longitudinal Play data. contribute new dataset to the community, which consists of over 87K 2.9M reviews, 2.4M reviewers, collected half year. achieves 95% accuracy classifying gold standard datasets malware, fraudulent legitimate apps. show 75% identified apps engage fraud. discovers hundreds currently evade Bouncer detection technology, reveals type attack campaign, where users are harassed into writing positive install other