Thwarting Obfuscated Malware via Differential Fault Analysis

Detecting malware in mobile applications has become increasingly complex as malware developers turn to advanced techniques to hide or obfuscate malicious components. Alterdroid is a dynamic-analysis tool that compares the behavioral differences between an original app and numerous automatically generated versions of it containing carefully injected modifications. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/4M1oribza7c is a video discussion of Alterdroid, a dynamic-analysis tool that compares the behavioral differences between an original app and numerous automatically generated versions of it containing carefully injected modifications.