Mobile Malware Attacks, Classification, Propagation, Analysis, Detection, Challenges and Future Directions – A Survey

Number of Smartphone users are increasing day by day and mobiles have become an integral part of the society. This is because of the rich variety of mobile devices and essential applications provided by its manufacturers. The increasing number of mobile devices invite skilled developers and hackers to develop malware that invades personal and business information in a very efficient manner. Therefore, mobile devices are an ideal target for various security issues and data privacy threats in a mobile ecosystem. Threats posed by malwares include leaking of private information, financial loss to users, system damage. For better protection on computers, researchers and manufacturers making great efforts to produce antimalware systems with effective detection methods why the most targeted platform for the malware developers is Android and why and how and when malwares propagate into the mobile system with how they are detected, and protection mechanism is discussed in this paper