Android OS supports multiple communication methods between apps. This opens the possibility to carry out threats in a collaborative fashion, c.f. the Soundcomber example from 2011. In this paper we provide a concise definition of collusion and report on a number of automated detection approaches, developed in co-operation with Intel Security.
@article{arxiv.1603.02308,
title = {Towards Automated Android App Collusion Detection},
author = {Irina Mariuca Asavoae and Jorge Blasco and Thomas M. Chen and Harsha Kumara Kalutarage and Igor Muttik and Hoang Nga Nguyen and Markus Roggenbach and Siraj Ahmed Shaikh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02308},
year = {2016}
}