IEEE Spectrum May 18, 2020
To understand how Android malware has evolved over time, an international team of researchers (US, USA – Boston University) analyzed over 1.2 million malware samples that belonged to 1.28K families over a period of eight years (from 2010 to 2017). The analysis framework relied on collective repositories and recent advances on the systematization of intelligence extracted from multiple anti-virus vendors using differential analysis to isolate software components that are irrelevant to the campaign and studied the behavior of malicious riders alone. They found that since its infancy in 2010, the Android malware ecosystem has changed significantly, both in the type of malicious activity performed by malware and in the level of obfuscation used to avoid detection, in particular, they showed that riders of malware families evolve over time. They highlighted areas that need further attention by the research community…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ