A Comparative Experimental Evaluation of Antimalware Tools on Android Mobile Device

Abstract

Information Security experts have been focusing on the study of malwares detection because of its rise recently.Android is the overwhelmingly dominant mobile operating system on the African phone market with 85.88%, while iOS, Series 40, Windows and other Operating systems has 8.84%, 0.57%, 0.39% and 3.23% respectively. Cybercriminals uses various types of malware to attack and compromise android devices in the recent years with the intent of getting access to sensitive information present in the victim’s devices. Various detection tools exits in the market, but how reliable in terms of performance were put to experimental analysis in this work. Five antimalware tools and eight malwares were used for our analysis under a virtual environment. Results of our analysis shows kaspersky antimalware as best performed while 360 Total Security as least performed as it failed to detect any of the malware samples despite its high rating performance in apps store.

Information Security experts have been focusing on the study of malwares detection because of its rise recently.Android is the overwhelmingly dominant mobile operating system on the African phone market with 85.88%, while iOS, Series 40, Windows and other Operating systems has 8.84%, 0.57%, 0.39% and 3.23% respectively. Cybercriminals uses various types of malware to attack and compromise android devices in the recent years with the intent of getting access to sensitive information present in the victim’s devices. Various detection tools exits in the market, but how reliable in terms of performance were put to experimental analysis in this work. Five antimalware tools and eight malwares were used for our analysis under a virtual environment. Results of our analysis shows kaspersky antimalware as best performed while 360 Total Security as least performed as it failed to detect any of the malware samples despite its high rating performance in apps store.