The Network Model to Prevent the Mobile Malware in the Distributed Environment

The emergence of mobile internet indirectly spreads the malware more rapidly. The potential effects of malware propagation on mobile users and service providers would not be compromised. Malware residing in the internet can now use mobile devices and networks to propagate. To counter the challenge of mobile malware, we need to adopt more robust security enforcement mechanism. Our research problem is to deploy an efficient preventing system to help infected nodes to recover from further infection. Our system design uses cloud environment rather than the mobile devices, therefore co-location of multiple virtual machines and sharing the same resources increase the speed of analysis and allowing the application of multiple detection techniques simultaneously with the consideration of the heterogeneity of mobile devices and malware to prevent the malware propagation under the real world mobile system. The proposed system takes exact replicas of the phones in virtual environment. Application provisioning, maintenance, high availability and disaster recovery are inherent in the virtual environment. Our work considers the case of cross-OS malware.