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Retrofitting Mobile Devices for Capturing Memory-Resident Malware Based on System Side-Effects

Jason Staggs
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Sujeet Shenoi
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Sophisticated memory-resident malware that target mobile phone platforms can be extremely difficult to detect and capture. However, triggering volatile memory captures based on observable system side-effects exhibited by malware can harvest live memory that contains memory-resident malware. This chapter describes a novel approach for capturing memory-resident malware on an Android device for future analysis. The approach is demonstrated by making modifications to the Android debuggerd daemon to capture memory while a vulnerable process is being exploited on a Google Nexus 5 phone. The implementation employs an external hardware device to store a memory capture after successful exfiltration from the compromised mobile device.
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hal-02534602 , version 1 (07-04-2020)

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Zachary Grimmett, Jason Staggs, Sujeet Shenoi. Retrofitting Mobile Devices for Capturing Memory-Resident Malware Based on System Side-Effects. 15th IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics (DigitalForensics), Jan 2019, Orlando, FL, United States. pp.59-72, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-28752-8_4⟩. ⟨hal-02534602⟩
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