Apposcopy: automated detection of Android malware (invited talk)

Abstract

We present Apposcopy, a new semantics-based approach for detecting Android malware that steal private information. Apposcopy incorporates (i) a high-level language for specifying malware signatures and (ii) a static analysis for deciding if a given application matches a given signature. We have evaluated Apposcopy on a corpus of real-world Android applications and show that it can effectively pinpoint malicious applications that belong to certain malware families.