Securing Android applications via edge assistant third-party library detection

• Main Authors: Tang, Zhushou, Xue, Minhui, Meng, Guozhu, Ying, Chengguo, Liu, Yugeng, He, Jianan, Zhu, Haojin, Liu, Yang
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Third-party Library Detection; Edge Computing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/150736
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Third-party library (TPL) detection in Android has been a hot topic to security researchers for a long time. A precise yet scalable detection of TPLs in applications can greatly facilitate other security activities such as TPL integrity checking, malware detection, and privacy leakage detection. Sin...