Android side channel attacks malware

Abstract

Smartphone accessibility has increased in the past decade, and with it, the proliferation of smart phone apps. These apps are used for a wide variety of purposes, some of which involve handling of sensitive user information. This information can be lucrative to many threat actors, and one way of extracting this information is to load a malware onto the user’s smartphone. Our work explores the usage of side channel attacks for this purpose. We look at existing side channel attacks on smartphones, and build our own by observing system metrics using both root and without root privileges and building a classifier on it.