Notification of Maliciousness Categorization of Application Programs for Mobile Devices

Abstract

An approach near instantly notifies devices onto which an application program is installed when the application program is identified as malware. An analysis system records application programs installed on devices. When an application program is identified as malware, the analysis system can locate a set of devices onto which the application program is installed. The analysis system notifies these devices near instantly when the particular application program is identified as malware. Users may be prompted to uninstall the application program from the devices. In addition, the devices may include instrumentations that block the application program from performing any malicious behavior. The application program may be identified as malware by malware detection methods that perform static and dynamic analysis of the application program on the analysis system or on mobile devices.

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