mobile virus presentation

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Mobile Viruses and Worms

(Project Group 6)

Amit Kumar Jain Amogh Asgekar Jeevan Chalke Manoj Kumar Ramdas Rao

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Introduction

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Introduction

– “Mobile” : pertaining to mobile devices

• cell phones, smart phones, PDAs,

– All kinds of unwanted malicious software

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Viruses

Differences with PC

differences exist:

− Lesser users of mobiles are less “tech literate”

− Implies that it is difficult to “rollout security

patches” to phones already sold

− Mobiles are always “connected” and switched on

− “Environment” keeps changing

 Imagine one infected phone in a stadium full of people

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Differences

− Several variants of phones exist

 A malware for one type of phone may not necessarily be able to infect others

− E.g., A virus that uses an MMS exploit cannot infect a phone that does not have that facility at all

− Mobile malware not yet causing critical harm

 At most

− they increase the user's billing, or

− cause the mobile phone to stop working (can be restored

by a factory reset)

Classification of Mobile Worms and Viruses

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Mobile Virus Families

The increase of known mobile malware variants

Increases in known mobile malware families

Complete (as of 30th August 2006) list of mobile virus families according to Kaspersky Lab classification http://www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pubid=200119916

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Viruses

Current threats by mobile malware

 Send and sell private information

information on the phone

Case Studies

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Viruses

Case Study – CABIR

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Case Study - ComWar

by charging the mobile user

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Viruses

Case Study - CardTrap

as well as Windows worm

legitimate applications – Black Symbian and Camcorder Pro

Futuristic Threats

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Viruses

Futuristic Developments

Protective Measures

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Viruses

Securing against attacks

 Proactive approach

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• Provides crypto functions and meets

performance and power targets

• Provides protection to any sensitive data

or cryptographic keys against common

attacks

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Proactive Approach

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Questions???

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– Haataja, K., “Two practical attacks against Bluetooth security using new enhanced

implementations of security analysis tools”, CNIS 2005, Arizona, USA, November 14-16, 2005.

– http://www.thebunker.net/security/bluetooth.htm

– http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/02/locate-anyone-in-the-uk-via-sms/

 Protective Measures:

– MOSES: http://www.princeton.edu/ ∼ sravi/security.htm

– Bose, Shin, “Proactive Security for Mobile Messaging Networks”, WiSe '06, September 29,

2006.

Thank You