Pulsed battery discharge in communication devices
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Energy-efficient design of battery-powered embedded systems
ISLPED '99 Proceedings of the 1999 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Battery capacity measurement and analysis using lithium coin cell battery
ISLPED '01 Proceedings of the 2001 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Mobile Phones as Computing Devices: The Viruses are Coming!
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Modeling epidemic spreading in mobile environments
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Wireless security
Exploiting open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Mitigating attacks on open functionality in SMS-capable cellular networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proactive security for mobile messaging networks
WiSe '06 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Wireless security
A preliminary investigation of worm infections in a bluetooth environment
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Recurring malcode
SmartSiren: virus detection and alert for smartphones
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Modeling Propagation Dynamics of Bluetooth Worms
ICDCS '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
On the detection and origin identification of mobile worms
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Recurring malcode
Can you infect me now?: malware propagation in mobile phone networks
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Recurring malcode
Behavioral detection of malware on mobile handsets
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Detecting energy-greedy anomalies and mobile malware variants
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Intelligent virus detection on mobile devices
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust: Bridge the Gap Between PST Technologies and Business Services
Using labeling to prevent cross-service attacks against smart phones
DIMVA'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment
Paranoid Android: versatile protection for smartphones
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Exploiting smart-phone USB connectivity for fun and profit
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Automated remote repair for mobile malware
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Potentia est scientia: security and privacy implications of energy-proportional computing
HotSec'12 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Hot Topics in Security
Exposing security risks for commercial mobile devices
MMM-ACNS'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security: computer network security
Security add-ons for mobile platforms
NordSec'12 Proceedings of the 17th Nordic conference on Secure IT Systems
ThinAV: truly lightweight mobile cloud-based anti-malware
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
MAST: triage for market-scale mobile malware analysis
Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks
ADAM: an automatic and extensible platform to stress test android anti-virus systems
DIMVA'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
Adaptive and Flexible Smartphone Power Modeling
Mobile Networks and Applications
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Due to the rapid advancement of mobile communication technology, mobile devices nowadays can support a variety of data services that are not traditionally available. With the growing popularity of mobile devices in the last few years, attacks targeting them are also surging. Existing mobile malware detection techniques, which are often borrowed from solutions to Internet malware detection, do not perform as effectively due to the limited computing resources on mobile devices. In this paper, we propose VirusMeter, a novel and general malware detection method, to detect anomalous behaviors on mobile devices. The rationale underlying VirusMeter is the fact that mobile devices are usually battery powered and any malicious activity would inevitably consume some battery power. By monitoring power consumption on a mobile device, VirusMeter catches misbehaviors that lead to abnormal power consumption. For this purpose, VirusMeter relies on a concise user-centric power model that characterizes power consumption of common user behaviors. In a real-time mode, VirusMeter can perform fast malware detection with trivial runtime overhead. When the battery is charging (referred to as a battery-charging mode), VirusMeter applies more sophisticated machine learning techniques to further improve the detection accuracy. To demonstrate its feasibility and effectiveness, we have implemented a VirusMeter prototype on Nokia 5500 Sport and used it to evaluate some real cellphone malware, including FlexiSPY and Cabir. Our experimental results show that VirusMeter can effectively detect these malware activities with less than 1.5% additional power consumption in real time.