Mobile is a rapidly growing web environment that attracts malware developers around the world. Smart phones, especially android phones are widely used and are the most popular new target for malware attacks. Most common type of malware found to attack android users was an unauthorized app repackaged as a normal app through a third party, unofficial app store. New apps found in the app store are hard to identify as malicious. Our work develops a malware detector and analyzer. This paper also links insights about malware attacks in COVID-19 on mobile devices. To meet the objectives, a model is implemented that extracts the inherent features of android application file and analyzes them for quick and accurate analysis. The model classifies the apps more accurately as benign or malicious.
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