Android platform App risk assessment method based on mobile cloud computing and Android platform App risk assessment device based on mobile cloud computing

Abstract

The invention discloses an Android platform App (Application) risk assessment method based on mobile cloud computing and an Android platform App risk assessment device based on the mobile cloud computing. The method comprises the following steps of: collecting all Apps in an Android market, and obtaining a permission list of each App; uploading data of the obtained permission list to the cloud; performing risk grade judgment according to the App privacy permission in the permission list and the set privacy permission risk mark in accordance with the obtained permission list of each App; and requesting data to the cloud according to the request of a mobile phone client, and sending the corresponding App risk grade judgment result obtained from the cloud and the privacy permission called by the App to a customer. The method and the device have the advantages that the permission characteristics of mass Apps are subjected to similar App population characteristic analysis; the dynamic minimum permission set of a certain population is defined; then, the malicious tendency of Android application software is detected by a similarity calculation method; a feasible and effective App assessment method is provided for a user; and the user privacy leakage risk is effectively reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to cloud computing technology, in particular to a mobile cloud computing-based Android platform App risk assessment method. Background technique [0002] As mobile phones become more and more powerful, it has become an indispensable part of life. The frequent use of users seems to make the mobile phone a small personal privacy library, which includes photos, emails, browsing records, various accounts, etc. Therefore, the privacy and security of mobile phones of users has become one of the biggest security issues nowadays. [0003] In the first half of 2014, there were more than 367,000 new mobile Internet malicious programs, and more than 99% of the mobile malicious programs targeted the Android platform, and malicious fee-deducting programs accounted for more than 62%, and more than 300 app stores had mobile malicious programs. Up to 6 million active applications. A large number of apps can read user privacy without user autho...

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Problems solved by technology

The core problem of Android APP security is that it is difficult to know whether the permissions owned by the APP are reasonable. This is an uncertain problem. The permission to read the phone book is reasonable in the WeChat application, but it is unreasonable in the flashlight APP.

A typical scenario is that when a user downloads a flashlight app, faced with thousands of flashlight apps, it is impossible to know which one is safer

The list of APP permissions provided by the application market has no reference value for the majority of non-professional users, and users cannot know whether it is reasonable for such apps to have these permissions

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