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Cloud based malware detection with on-device network traffic analysis for enhancing Android user`s Privacy

2020; Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR); Volume: 7; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

2349-5162

V. Kaviarasu, K. Kathirvel, Lakshmi Narasimha Rao, Sumit Kumar,

Mobile and Web Applications

As we all know that the Android Platform is developed by Google for mobile devices with powerful processing capabilities. Its kernel is based on Linux OS. The android applications run in a sandbox. Nonetheless, many organizations such as Kaspersky, McAfee, and AVG Technologies, etc., have released the android version of their antivirus software products. Even though the antivirus application runs under the sandbox, it has a limit to scan the environment. This Project represents the creation of an Application for android platform users to protect their privacy and safeguard their data. To achieve this, we have created a firewall-like app which is a perfect solution if users would like to preserve their privacy. A cloud-based malware scanning can be implemented to prevent malware infections provided with a network traffic analysis mechanism that can be used to monitor the traffic flow through a Local VPN Tunnel to identify the outgoing packets per-app running on the device by using the Ant-monitor Library. By implementing a local VPN, the traffic can be analyzed without the need for superuser permission to the device.