However, the ongoing smartphomania

However, the ongoing smartphomania shall
provide a fertile ground for wide-spread smartphone attacks, in
general, and for Android attacks, due to its market share, in
particular. Since the rise of Cabir [3] in 2004 as a selfreplicating
worm many smartphone viruses have appeared. For
instance, Racic et al. [4] studied using the multimedia
messaging service (MMS) to deplete phone batteries, Becher et
al. [5] promised a mighty potential to create a worm for the
Windows Mobile platform, and D’ Aguanno [6] provided a
proof-of-concept attack to RIM Blackberry. Many other works
have surveyed about smartphones attacks [7, 8]; even some
introduced malware propagation models [9]. A diagram