  The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior and intent of recent types
of privacy invasive Android adware. There are two recent trends in this area:
more financial motives instead of ego motives, and the development of more
dynamic analysis tools. This paper starts with a review of Android mobile
operating system security, and also addresses the pros and cons of open source
operating system security. Static analysis of malware provides high quality
results and leads to a good understanding as shown in this paper. However, as
malware grows in number and complexity, there have been recent efforts to
automate the detection mechanisms and many of the static tasks. As Android's
market share is rapidly growing around the world. Android security will be a
crucial area of research for IT security professionals and their academic
counterparts. The upside of the current situation is that malware is being
quickly exposed, thanks to open source software development tools. This
cooperation is important in curbing the widespread theft of personal
information with monetary value.
