A review of the smart phone botnets and their confronting Techniques

Withe the growth rate of smartphones, we are daily witness malwares which sits on them confidential information such as financial information and transactions, mobile banking, contact information and even steal SMS messages. One of the major damage that malware can cause the formation of mobile cellular botnets. According to statistics published in 2014, F-secure site on mobile malware threats every 5 botnet threat is one of them. The term botnet refers to a group of mobile smartphones to remotely influenced by the Director of the bot command and control channel for the control activities. In this paper, the new plans provided by mobile botnets from three points of distribution, channel botnet command and control and topology will be reviewed and ways to deal with this threat are briefly presented.