Design and Analysis of Push Notification-Based Malware on Android

Establishing secret command and control (C&C) channels from attackers is important in malware design. This paper presents design and analysis of malware architecture exploiting push notification services as C&C channels. The key feature of the push notification-based malware design is remote triggering , which allows attackers to trigger and execute their malware by push notifications. The use of push notification services as covert...