AMon: A Monitoring Multidimensional Feature Application to Secure Android Environments

José Antonio Goméz Hernández; Pedro García-Teodoro; Juan Antonio Holgado-Terriza; Gabriel Maciá-Fernández; José Camacho; Margarita Robles Carrillo

Abstract:

his work introduces a novel Android monitoring app named AMon. It is aimed at collecting device related information from several sources: communications, /proc filesystem, applications and device usage. The information is dynamically gathered over time and its execution does not require to get special privileges or to be system root. In order to assess AMon capabilities, we have used it as the acquisition module of a subsequent security incident detection process. The results obtained show a good performance in terms of battery consumption, CPU and RAM usage, as well as overall system overhead. In order to contribute to the community, AMon is available at a public repository for free use and improvement.

Research areas:

• Intrusion detection and protection

Year:

2021

Type of Publication:

In Proceedings

Keywords:

Monitoring; Mobile security; anomaly detection

Editor:

IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)P)

Pages:

31-36

Month:

27 May

DOI:

0.1109/SPW53761.2021.00013