AirBag: Boosting Smartphone Resistance to Malware Infection

Author(s): Chiachih Wu, Yajin Zhou, Kunal Patel, Zhenkai Liang, Xuxian Jiang

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Date: 22 Feb 2014

Document Type: Briefing Papers

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Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2014

Abstract:

We present AirBag, a lightweight OS-level virtualization approach to enhance the popular Android platform and boost its defense capability against mobile malware infection. Assuming a trusted smartphone OS kernel, AirBag is designed to isolate and prevent malicious apps from infecting our normal systems or leaking private information.