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We address the problem of discovering communication links between applications in the popular Android mobile operating system, an important problem for security and privacy in Android. Any scalable static analysis in this complex setting is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jinman Zhao , Aws Albarghouthi , Vaibhav Rastogi , Somesh Jha , Damien Octeau

Contact tracing has historically been used to retard the spread of infectious diseases, but if it is exercised by hand in large-scale, it is known to be a resource-intensive and quite deficient process. Nowadays, digital contact tracing has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Vasileios Kouliaridis , Georgios Kambourakis , Efstratios Chatzoglou , Dimitrios Geneiatakis , Hua Wang

With the popularity of Android apps, different techniques have been proposed to enhance app protection. As an effective approach to prevent reverse engineering, obfuscation can be used to serve both benign and malicious purposes. In recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Zeliang Kan , Haoyu Wang , Lei Wu , Yao Guo , Daniel Xiapu Luo

Android malware detection is a critical step towards building a security credible system. Especially, manual search for the potential malicious code has plagued program analysts for a long time. In this paper, we propose Droidetec, a deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhuo Ma , Haoran Ge , Zhuzhu Wang , Yang Liu , Ximeng Liu

Modern software supply chains face an increasing threat from malicious code hidden in trusted components such as browser extensions, IDE extensions, and open-source packages. This paper introduces JavaSith, a novel client-side framework for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Avihay Cohen

Android is one of the leading operating systems for smart phones in terms of market share and usage. Unfortunately, it is also an appealing target for attackers to compromise its security through malicious applications. To tackle this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaleem Nawaz Khan , Najeeb Ullah , Sikandar Ali , Muhammad Salman Khan , Mohammad Nauman , Anwar Ghani

Frequently advised secure development recommendations often fall short in practice for app developers. Tool-driven (e.g., using static analysis tools) approaches lack context and domain-specific requirements of an app being tested. App…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Muhammad Sajidur Rahman , Blas Kojusner , Ryon Kennedy , Prerit Pathak , Lin Qi , Byron Williams

Android is an open software platform for mobile devices with a large market share in the smartphone sector. The openness of the system as well as its wide adoption lead to an increasing amount of malware developed for this platform. ANANAS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-13 Thomas Eder , Michael Rodler , Dieter Vymazal , Markus Zeilinger

Android is becoming ubiquitous and currently has the largest share of the mobile OS market with billions of application downloads from the official app market. It has also become the platform most targeted by mobile malware that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

To detect and fix bugs and security vulnerabilities, software companies use static analysis as part of the development process. However, static analysis code itself is also prone to bugs. To ensure a consistent level of precision, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Lisa Nguyen Quang Do , Stefan Krüger , Patrick Hill , Karim Ali , Eric Bodden

We describe a workflow used to analyze the source code of the {\sc Android OS kernel} and rate for a particular kind of bugginess that exposes a program to hacking. The workflow represents a novel approach for components' vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Joseph R. Barr , Peter Shaw , Tyler Thatcher

The emergence of mobile platforms with increased storage and computing capabilities and the pervasive use of these platforms for sensitive applications such as online banking, e-commerce and the storage of sensitive information on these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Joshua Abah , Waziri O. , Abdullahi M. B , Arthur U. M , Adewale O. S

Malware detection is a growing problem particularly on the Android mobile platform due to its increasing popularity and accessibility to numerous third party app markets. This has also been made worse by the increasingly sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Kieran McLaughlin , Sakir Sezer

Background. Evidence suggests that mobile applications are not thoroughly tested as their desktop counterparts. In particular GUI testing is generally limited. Like web-based applications, mobile apps suffer from GUI test fragility, i.e.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Riccardo Coppola , Maurizio Morisio , Marco Torchiano

Building sound and precise static call graphs for real-world JavaScript applications poses an enormous challenge, due to many hard-to-analyze language features. Further, the relative importance of these features may vary depending on the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Madhurima Chakraborty , Renzo Olivares , Manu Sridharan , Behnaz Hassanshahi

This demo paper presents the technical details and usage scenarios of $\mu$SE: a mutation-based tool for evaluating security-focused static analysis tools for Android. Mutation testing is generally used by software practitioners to assess…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Amit Seal Ami , Kaushal Kafle , Kevin Moran , Adwait Nadkarni , Denys Poshyvanyk

With the exponential growth in mobile applications, protecting user privacy has become even more crucial. Android applications are often known for collecting, storing, and sharing sensitive user information such as contacts, location,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mst Eshita Khatun , Lamine Noureddine , Zhiyong Sui , Aisha Ali-Gombe

The daily amount of Android malicious applications (apps) targeting the app repositories is increasing, and their number is overwhelming the process of fingerprinting. To address this issue, we propose an enhanced Cypider framework, a set…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Abdelouahid Derhab , Djedjiga Mouheb

Android has been the most popular smartphone system with multiple platform versions active in the market. To manage the application's compatibility with one or more platform versions, Android allows apps to declare the supported platform…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Daoyuan Wu , Debin Gao , David Lo

As Android malware is growing and evolving, deep learning has been introduced into malware detection, resulting in great effectiveness. Recent work is considering hybrid models and multi-view learning. However, they use only simple…

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