A Preface on Android Malware: Taxonomy, Techniques and Tools

Abstract

Android OS has an open architecture and provides Application Programming Interface (APIs)enabling it to earn a huge market share and interest in the developer community. Android has become the most well-liked smartphone Operating System in current digital world. With the increased popularity of Android devices and open source features the malware threat has also increased. Android mobile operating system applications have right to use to a lot of personal information when granted certain permissions at the time of app installation. Apps can have access to the contacts, e-mails, can track the physical location, access gallery, and others. Due to this reason, Android users are looking for better security solutions to protect their smartphones from malicious actions. To cope up with this exponential growth of mobile users and malware threats, we have presented and analyzed Android malware trends till 2016 and continuous growth in malware till first quarter of May 2017. To clinch, we have summarized Android malware detection techniques.