Search Rank Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play

Abstract

Deluding rehearses in Google Play, a most well known Android application advance, fuel search rank maltreatment and malware augmentation. To see malware, past work has concentrated on application executable and endorsement evaluation. At this moment, present Fair Play, a novel framework that finds and use follows left behind by fraudsters, to perceive both malware and applications displayed to look through position intimidation. Reasonable Play accomplices outline rehearses and remarkably joins perceived survey relations with semantic and direct signals gathered from Google Play application information (87K applications, 2.9M audits, and 2.4M intellectuals, aggregated over a gigantic fragment of a year), so as to perceive suspicious applications. Reasonable Play accomplishes over 95% precision in social affair most great level datasets of malware, dubious and genuine applications. We show that 75% of the apparent malware applications participate in search rank coercion. Reasonable Play finds a couple of false applications that at present sidestep Google Bouncer's region improvement. Reasonable Play in like way helped the exposure of in excess of 1,000 audits, announced for 193 applications that uncover another kind of "coercive" diagram crusade: clients are irritated into framing positive examinations, and present and survey different applications. In this way, we watch out for recently referenced to mine major data identifying with express application through the audits that are verified by from remarks. A brief timeframe later, these surveys are joined to mine contortion in application arranging.