DroidMorph Shows Popular Android Antivirus Fail to Detect Cloned Malicious Apps

guest · Jun 21, 2021

DroidMorph Shows Popular Android Antivirus Fail to Detect Cloned Malicious Apps
June 21, 2021
https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/droidmorph-shows-popular-android.html

A new research published by a group of academics has found that anti-virus programs for Android continue to remain vulnerable against different permutations of malware, in what could pose a serious risk as malicious actors evolve their toolsets to better evade analysis.

"Malware writers use stealthy mutations (morphing/obfuscations) to continuously develop malware clones, thwarting detection by signature based detectors," the researchers said. "This attack of clones seriously threatens all the mobile platforms, especially Android."
What's more, malware authors can expand on this technique to develop multiple clones of the rogue software with varying levels of abstraction and obfuscation to disguise their true intent and slip through the defense barriers created by anti-malware engines.
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In a test conducted using 1,771 morphed APK variants generated through DroidMorph, the researchers found that 8 out of 17 leading commercial anti-malware programs failed to detect any of the cloned applications [...]

The anti-malware programs that were successfully bypassed include LineSecurity, MaxSecurity, DUSecurityLabs, AntivirusPro, 360Security, SecuritySystems, GoSecurity, and LAAntivirusLab.
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arXiv: DroidMorph: Are We Ready to Stop the Attack of Android Malware Clones?

The number of Android malware variants (clones) are on the rise and, to stop this attack of clones we need to develop new methods and techniques for analysing and detecting them. As a first step, we need to study how these malware clones are generated.
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(PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09218

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