ThinAV: Truly Lightweight Mobile Cloud-based Anti-malware

This paper introduces ThinAV, an anti-malware system for Android that uses pre-existing web-based file scanning ser-vices for malware detection. The goal in developing Thi-nAV was to assess the feasibility of providing real-time anti-malware scanning over a wide area network where resource limitation is a factor. As a result, our research provides a necessary counterpoint to many of the big-budget, resource-intensive idealized solutions that have been suggested in the area of cloud-based security. The evaluation of ThinAV shows that it functions well over a wide area network, re-sulting in a system which is highly practical for providing anti-malware security on smartphones