CuckooDroid

CuckooDroid is the tool with the open code for the analysis of the malware in Android.

On April 7, 2015 the company Check Point announced CuckooDroid release - the free tool with the open code helping to identify quicker and more precisely the malware created for attacks on the operating system Google Android.

CuckooDroid automates the analysis of applications for Android OS, accelerating detection and liquidation of mobile threats. The product is available to suppliers of security aids and developers of mobile applications.

The CuckooDroid tool is developed by division of Check Point Malware and Vulnerability Research Group. It is the automated system of emulation and the analysis of the malware based on popular "sandbox" of Cuckoo open source. The product considerably reduces time of detection of the malware for Android and in applications, accelerates creation of security aids for counteraction to new threats. The free scheme of distribution of the solution will help to accelerate, according to creators, detection of the malware of Android and to improve technologies of protection of mobile devices in all industry.

Architecture of CuckooDroid, 2015

The harmful mobile applications of Android which are periodically appearing in Google Play make more than 95% of all mobile malware. Among examples of similar infections there is gambling Fool - the number of loadings exceeds 15 million.

In CuckooDroid set different the technician for the analysis of applications is used, the itemized statement on what specifically does this or that application at start is provided, noting any suspicious actions without the need for the manual analysis. The tool has potential of flexible configuration and expansion at the expense of resources of community of Cuckoo developers.

The program is available free of charge to suppliers of security aids and mobile developers.