The Core of the Matter: Analyzing Malicious Traffic in Cellular Carriers

Author(s): Charles Lever, Manos Antonakakis, Brad Reaves, Patrick Traynor, Wenke Lee

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Date: 23 Apr 2013

Document Type: Presentations

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Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2013

Abstract:

Much of the attention surrounding mobile malware has focused on the in-depth analysis of malicious applications. In this paper, we present the first empirical network level analysis of mobile malware using traffic from a major US cellular provider and quantify the extent to which devices are actually infected in the network.