DroidSearch
August 1, 2013 · View on GitHub
DroidSearch: A Search Engine to Automatically Collect, Disassemble, Index and Search Android Malware
With the increasing number of smartphone users, hacker have moved there targets to smartphone. Recently, a lot of malware pop up into analysts’ eyes. Different anti-virus company have paid attention to this area. Many malware analysts are working on the malware disassembling and analyzing. To improve the effectiveness of analyzing malware, DroidSearch give a practical solution. DroidSearch can automatically collect, disassemble, index and search Android malware. By developing a extensible third-party markets application crawler, we have downlaoded 90,368 applications including 1,688 malware. In addition, DroidSearch can disassemble the applications to source codes and index them into search engine. Then analysts can use DroidSerch to perform full-text search, definition search or symbol search. Also, DroidSearch can give term suggestions for analysts when they type the wrong term. We successfully uncovered the remote server of the malware and show the effectivness of DroidSearch.