Security Analysis of Android Finance and Healthcare Applications
Security Analysis of Android Finance and Healthcare Applications

Summary/Abstract: Android is a major mobile operating system pre-installed and shipped with more than 60% of smartphones in the market. The open source nature of android encourages the developers to innovate wide range of applications. Meantime, the sweeping android acceptance by individuals and industries caught the attention of malicious software writers, which led to a sharp increase of security threats. Such threats raise a deeper concern in financial and healthcare applications that are inherently bound to handle private and sensitive information. We propose and implement an application security analysis framework to analyze the security threats in Android applications, particular financial and healthcare applications. Our tool can crawl google play, automatically download applications package to a repository and then conduct threat analysis. We show our analysis result of the top 632 free applications from finance and medical category in google play.

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