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Mobile terminals especially smartphones are changing people's work and life style. For example, mobile payments are experiencing rapid growth as consumers use mobile terminals as part of lifestyles. However, security is a big challenge for mobile application services. In order to reduce security risks, mobile terminal security assessment should be conducted before providing application services. An approach of comprehensive security assessment is proposed in this paper by defining security metrics with the corresponding scores and determining the relative weights of security metrics based on the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Overall security assessment of Android-based mobile terminals is implemented for mobile payment services with payment fraud detection accuracy of 89%, which shows that the proposed approach of security assessment is reasonable.