Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SMS-BASED MALWARE
- Patent Title (中): 用于检测基于SMS的恶意软件的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14321955Application Date: 2014-07-02
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Publication No.: US20150011186A1Publication Date: 2015-01-08
- Inventor: Seung-Yong YOON , Young-Sae KIM , Jeong-Nyeo KIM , Hyun-Sook CHO , Hong-Il JU
- Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- Priority: KR10-2013-0079270 20130705; KR10-2014-0067080 20140602
- Main IPC: H04W12/02
- IPC: H04W12/02 ; H04W4/14

Abstract:
There are provided a method and apparatus for detecting and handling a malicious act that performs billing and takes a financial gain using a short message service (SMS) in real time. The apparatus includes an SMS collecting module configured to collect an SMS message sent from or received in a smartphone; an SMS parsing module configured to parse the collected SMS message; an SMS examining module configured to examine at least one field of the parsed SMS message and determine whether the SMS message is a malicious act-related message based on an access control list (ACL) and an SMS signature DB; and an installing app examining module configured to examine SMS message sending permission of an app to be installed in the smartphone and a priority of an SMS receiver process included in the app and determine whether the app has a possibility of being malware.
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