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Simulation Of New Methods Using Applications Which Exflitrate Data From Android Phones

Maria-Alexandra Paun
2022
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Nowadays mobile phones have become indispensable, as they have been endowed with many of the capabilities that a user was able to achieve previously with the help of PCs only. Among the functions that mobile phones perform we identify audio and video calls, internet access, capture photos and videos, contactless payments, GPS and instant messaging. This article demonstrates a method of exfiltrating data from smartphones using a virus for mobile phones running the Android Operating System. This paper presents a novel method of data theft affecting Android users, using a Trojan application of our creation. We leverage MSFvenom Payload Creator (MSFPC) wrapper which is a quick way to generate various Meterpreter payloads using msfvenom package from the Kali Linux operating system to achieve our goals and retrieve the user data.

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Maria-Alexandra Paun
2022
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c5d96dfb-54fd-4152-b99f-af4f9ea81c9d

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of developers known as the Open Handset Alliance, though its most widely used version is primarily developed by Google. It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008.

Mobile operating system

A mobile operating system is an operating system for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices. While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are generally not considered mobile ones, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific mobile features. This line distinguishing mobile and other forms has become blurred in recent years, due to the fact that newer devices have become smaller and more mobile unlike hardware of the past.

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