Abstract
Applications based on the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from cyber attacks. Developers and researchers attempt to prevent the growth of such disruption models, mitigate and limit their impact. This requires the understanding and characterization of things and the technologies that empower the IoT. Futhermore, tools to evaluate, analyze and detect security threats in IoT devices are strongly required. This paper presents a web tool, named GARMDROID, aimed to help IoT software developers and integrators to evaluate IoT security threats based on the visualization of Android application hardware requests. This procedure is based on the static analysis of permissions requested by Android applications. A mapping from the malware analysis data obtained to a SysML block definition diagram is also briefly described. This mapping shows how data can be used to model IoT systems under different proposals such as Model Integrated Mechatronics (MIM) and UML4IoT.
Highlights
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to extend “anywhere, anyhow, anytime” computing to “anything, anyone any service”
Taking into account that in recent years Android OS has become one of the principal sharers in the global mobile devices market [3], our research has focused on the analysis and detection of security threats in Android applications
GARMDROID is based on the capabilities provided by the Android SDK tool set, the Android Asset Packaging Tool (AAPT) which is contained as part of the platform tools set
Summary
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to extend “anywhere, anyhow, anytime” computing to “anything, anyone any service”. The IoT envisions a future where each person and thing has a locatable, addressable, and readable counterpart on the Internet. Such highly-distributed nature and use of fragile technologies, such as limited-function embedded devices in public areas, create weak links that malicious entities can exploit [1]. This visualization results very handy in the identification of potential threats or bad designed software This system has been named GARMDROID as a result of the fusion of the words GARM and Android (in Norse mythology, Garm is a dog described as a blood stained watchdog that guards Hel’s gate [4])
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