Mobile security is an emerging area with little visibility. handset patch management is a major concern and in the last year exploits have emerged for both the android and the iphone/ipod ios, along with the appearance of the first mobile device botnets. this project is intended to be the first step in providing dynamic instrumentation for mobile malware analysis on the android platform, as well as for use in future android honey pots. the goal is to create a sandbox built on the android platform to monitor and log events that an analyst could use to determine if something malicious has occurred and what a particular application is doing while running on the mobile device. in the proposed system, android application sandbox (ifetsandbox) is proposed, which is able to perform both static and dynamic analysis on android programs to automatically detect suspicious applications. static analysis scans the software for malicious patterns without installing it. dynamic analysis executes the application in a fully isolated environment, i.e. sandbox, which intervenes and logs low-level interactions with the system for further analysis. ifetsandbox might be used to improve the efficiency of classical anti-virus applications available for the android operating system.