In the first quarter of 2011, Android has become the top-selling operating system for smartphones. In this paper, we present a novel, highly critical attack that allows unprompted installation of arbitrary applications from the Android Market. Our attack is based on a single malicious application, which, in contrast to previously known attacks, does not require the user to grant it any permissions.
@article{arxiv.1106.4184,
title = {A Novel Attack against Android Phones},
author = {Michael Backes and Sebastian Gerling and Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4184},
year = {2011}
}