Towards Dynamic Malware Analysis to Increase Mobile Device Security

Abstract

Mobile devices like smartphones have different properties compared to common personal computers. Therefore, the basic principles of mobile device security are also different and this situation is advantageous because it gives more possibilities of securing the mobile device, based on the more centrally controlled environment in which they operate, and a different role of the user. This paper describes the framework for a background monitoring system to collect software that a user is going to install on its device, and to automatically perform a dynamic analysis of the software. The implementation of a dynamic analysis module of the monitoring system is presented. It has the task of performing the dynamic analysis by transferring common sandboxing approaches to the Windows Mobile operating system on the ARM architecture.