Towards a generic framework for automating extensive analysis of Android applications

Li Li; Daoyuan Li; Alexandre Bartel; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé; Jacques Klein; Yves Le Traon

doi:10.1145/2851613.2851784

Towards a generic framework for automating extensive analysis of Android applications

Li Li, Daoyuan Li, Alexandre Bartel, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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Abstract

Despite much effort in the community, the momentum of Android research has not yet produced complete tools to perform thorough analysis on Android apps, leaving users vulnerable to malicious apps. Because it is hard for a single tool to efficiently address all of the various challenges of Android programming which make analysis difficult, we propose to instrument the app code for reducing the analysis complexity, e.g., transforming a hard problem to a easy-resolvable one. To this end, we introduce in this paper Apkpler, a plugin-based framework for supporting such instrumentation. We evaluate Apkpler with two plugins, demonstrating the feasibility of our approach and showing that Apkpler can indeed be leveraged to reduce the analysis complexity of Android apps.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Editors	Jiman Hong, Maria Lencastre
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1460-1465
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450337397
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2851613.2851784
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2016 - Pisa, Italy Duration: 4 Apr 2016 → 8 Apr 2016 Conference number: 31st http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2016/

Conference

Conference	ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2016
Abbreviated title	SAC 2016
Country	Italy
City	Pisa
Period	4/04/16 → 8/04/16
Internet address	http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2016/

Keywords

Android
Apkpler
Generic framework
Static analysis

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10.1145/2851613.2851784

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Li, L, Li, D, Bartel, A, Bissyandé, TF, Klein, J & Le Traon, Y 2016, Towards a generic framework for automating extensive analysis of Android applications. in J Hong & M Lencastre (eds), The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 1460-1465, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2016, Pisa, Italy, 4/04/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2851613.2851784

Towards a generic framework for automating extensive analysis of Android applications. / Li, Li; Li, Daoyuan; Bartel, Alexandre; Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; Klein, Jacques; Le Traon, Yves.

The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ed. / Jiman Hong; Maria Lencastre. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 1460-1465.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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