Research Article

Agent-Based Model to Study and Quantify the Evolution Dynamics of Android Malware Infection

Table 12

Mean and CI 95% of the accumulated infected smartphones by privilege escalation and financial charge in July 2013, July 2014, and December 2014 in the community of Valencia and the corresponding percentages predicted by the model. These figures can give us an idea about the amount of money that the financial charge malware moves every month.

ā€‰ Privilege escalation Financial charge
ā€‰ Mean CI Mean CI

July 24857 16360, 32743 39824 26340, 51857
2013 2.11% 1.39%, 2.78% 3.38% 2.24%, 4.41%

July 38481 25493, 50185 66861 44418, 86341
2014 3.27% 2.17%, 4.26% 5.68% 3.77%, 7.34%

December 44414 29447, 57718 78643 52304, 101289
2014 3.77% 2.50%, 4.90% 6.68% 4.44%, 8.61%