Effectiveness of Dynamic Analysis Tools and Honeypots for Inspecting Android Applications

Android applications are software components that are used to perform tasks such as messaging, calling, social networking, banking, trading, capturing photos and videos, etc on Android devices. Android users use a variety of such applications on their mobile devices as per the requirement. Android developers and security researchers can use certain tools to understand and analyse the dynamic behaviour of Android applications without installing them on real Android devices. This paper focuses on the detailed study of dynamic analysis tools and honeypots for inspecting the behaviour of Android applications either on a simulation environment or a real Android device. This paper will help Android developers and security researchers to select the appropriate tools based on the necessity of inspection.