Abstract
We demonstrate the benefits of DroidRA, a tool for taming reection in Android apps. DroidRA first statically extracts reection-related object values from a given Android app. Then, it leverages the extracted values to boost the app in a way that reective calls are no longer a challenge for existing static analyzers. This is achieved through a bytecode instrumentation approach, where reective calls are supplemented with explicit traditional Java method calls which can be followed by state-of-the-art analyzers which do not handle reection. Instrumented apps can thus be completely analyzed by existing static analyzers, which are no longer required to be modified to support reection-aware analysis. The video demo of DroidRA can be found at https://youtu.be/-HW0V68aAWc.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | ASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 756-761 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450338455 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 25 Aug 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Automated Software Engineering Conference 2016 - Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore, Singapore Duration: 3 Sep 2016 → 7 Sep 2016 Conference number: 31st http://www.ase2016.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | Automated Software Engineering Conference 2016 |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title | ASE 2016 |
| Country | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 3/09/16 → 7/09/16 |
| Internet address |
Keywords
- Android
- DroidRA
- Reection
- Static Analysis
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Reflection-aware static analysis of android apps. / Li, Li; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Octeau, Damien; Klein, Jacques.
ASE 2016 - Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 756-761.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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AU - Li, Li
AU - Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.
AU - Octeau, Damien
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N2 - We demonstrate the benefits of DroidRA, a tool for taming reection in Android apps. DroidRA first statically extracts reection-related object values from a given Android app. Then, it leverages the extracted values to boost the app in a way that reective calls are no longer a challenge for existing static analyzers. This is achieved through a bytecode instrumentation approach, where reective calls are supplemented with explicit traditional Java method calls which can be followed by state-of-the-art analyzers which do not handle reection. Instrumented apps can thus be completely analyzed by existing static analyzers, which are no longer required to be modified to support reection-aware analysis. The video demo of DroidRA can be found at https://youtu.be/-HW0V68aAWc.
AB - We demonstrate the benefits of DroidRA, a tool for taming reection in Android apps. DroidRA first statically extracts reection-related object values from a given Android app. Then, it leverages the extracted values to boost the app in a way that reective calls are no longer a challenge for existing static analyzers. This is achieved through a bytecode instrumentation approach, where reective calls are supplemented with explicit traditional Java method calls which can be followed by state-of-the-art analyzers which do not handle reection. Instrumented apps can thus be completely analyzed by existing static analyzers, which are no longer required to be modified to support reection-aware analysis. The video demo of DroidRA can be found at https://youtu.be/-HW0V68aAWc.
KW - Android
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