4.2. ResultsWe assume that the permissions asked by APKs from Google Play are legitimate. Their permissions are the basepermissions against which permissions asked by APKs downloaded from other sources are compared in ourexperiment. This assumption has been further discussed in Section 5.When the 50 apps listed in the dataset were analyzed for any extra permissions‚ differences were found amongthe permissions asked by APKs of 6 apps downloaded from Google Play and Mobogenie. One of the two APKs ofthe same app asked for extra permissions for the same functionality − for the six apps. Not surprisingly‚ for all thesix apps‚ the APK from Mobogenie was the one asking for extra permissions. Table 1 mentions the six apps onGoogle Play which have apps with the same name on Mobogenie market asking for extra permissions. It is highlylikely that all these APKs from Mobogenie market either have malicious code, or have some added or replacedadvertisements, or have modified in-app billing parameters.Pou is one of the six apps whose Mobogenie version asks for more permissions than its Google Play version.This comparison of permissions from two APKs can be automated. We used APKTool to decompress the APK filesand obtained the manifest files (AndroidManifest.xml) from the APKs. Figure 1 shows part of the manifest file ofPou's APK downloaded from Google Play with all the uses-permissions tags. Figure 2 shows part of the manifestfile of Pou's APK downloaded from Mobogenie with all the uses-permissions tags. Obviously‚ there are many morepermissions in figure 2 than in figure 1.