Find out the "Bad guys" on the Symbian

After the emergence of Cabir mobile virus, the mobile virus has become a new trend. To date, there are more than 400 types of mobile viruses discovered. As we know, most of them are executing on the Symbian platform.
It has been a long time since the first mobile virus. Many anti-virus venders have released their mobile anti-virus utilities out. But until now, we could hardly find out a paper to let us know how to identify a mobile virus.
Taking into account the analysis technical difficulty, we think that Symbian virus will give us significant insight into mobile viruses. In this paper, I will provide you a general analysis method for Symbian virus. And then, I will also show you how to analyze some Symbian viruses based on this method. In the last section of this paper, I will provide suggestions in the automatic analysis of Symbian virus. I hope that you can find the "Bad guys" on Symbian by yourself with this paper.


After the emergence of Cabir mobile virus, the mobile virus has become a new trend. To date, there are more than 400 types of mobile viruses discovered. As we know, most of them are executing on the Symbian platform.
It has been a long time since the first mobile virus. Many anti-virus venders have released their mobile anti-virus utilities out. But until now, we could hardly find out a paper to let us know how to identify a mobile virus.
Taking into account the analysis technical difficulty, we think that Symbian virus will give us significant insight into mobile viruses. In this paper, I will provide you a general analysis method for Symbian virus. And then, I will also show you how to analyze some Symbian viruses based on this method. In the last section of this paper, I will provide suggestions in the automatic analysis of Symbian virus. I hope that you can find the "Bad guys" on Symbian by yourself with this paper.

References

Association of Anti Virus Asia Researchers Conference 2007