Implementation of Mobile Malware

Abstract

In wireless eon mobile phones have turn out to be the integral part of every human communication. As a result, the computer malware is now drifting from computers to mobile phones. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the Bluetooth & SMS based mobile malware propagation, cloud based detection of both the malwares & at last, control the malware propagation. Mobile malware propagates via two communication channels viz. Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, and SMS/MMS. BT based malware propagates in geometric proximity and thus has a short range spreading pattern. SMS-based malware propagation has a long-range spreading pattern. SMS-based malwares are dangerous when it comes to speed and scope of propagation. When a message is sent from one device to another device, suspicious activity logs are sent to cloud server. When some predefined numbers of logs come from a specific device & signature matches, then that device is declared as malicious or attacker. In this way, signature based malware detection implemented on cloud is used to detect malware. Malicious device’s details are sent back to mobile network in the form of patch. This patch prevents other devices from receiving the message sent by attacker. The ultimate aim of this paper is to analyze the speed and severity of mobile malware before it comes into reality.