• Sangeeta Rani

Smartphone, with its powerful capabilities, has been wildly used in every area of our day to day life. The enormous kinds of applications installed in these smart phones like WhatsApp and Viber have changed the way people live and communicate. An estimate by Gartner indicates that 90% of the phones by the end of 2018 will be smartphones. The most popular mobile operating system today in the industry is Android. However, with the prevalence of Android smartphone, the malware writers have begun to target it. Android use permission- based system to warn the users about the risk associated with an application. This paper will review the growth of malware on Android platform to provide an understanding of the real risk and behavior of these types of threats. We will also review some countermeasures and tools to analyze Android applications which are based on Android Permission Model. The findings of the review will be making an effort to research in the area of Android malware detection by understanding the current scenario and developments that have happened in the field thus far.

Android, Apps, Malware, Permissions, Smartphone, Permission Model.

"DEMYSTIFYING ANDROID: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.1178-1184, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006204.pdf

"DEMYSTIFYING ANDROID: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp1178-1184, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006204.pdf