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Ransomware is not a Personal Computer (PC) problem anymore, but nowadays smartphones are also vulnerable to it. Various types of ransomware such as Android/Simplocker and Android/ Lockerpin attack Android OS to steal users’ personal information. In this paper, we present the evolution of Android ransomware and coin a term—RansomAnalysis—to perform the investigation of samples to analyze the AndroidManifest.xml file for the extraction of permissions. We perform a comparison between permissions gathered by ransomware and benign apps. Besides this, we analyze the topmost permissions used by Android ransomware.
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Sharma, S., Kumar, R., Krishna, C.R. (2020). RansomAnalysis: The Evolution and Investigation of Android Ransomware. In: Dutta, M., Krishna, C., Kumar, R., Kalra, M. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on IoT Inclusive Life (ICIIL 2019), NITTTR Chandigarh, India. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 116. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3020-3_4
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