Understanding open ports in Android applications: Discovery, diagnosis, and security assessment

• Main Authors: WU, Daoyuan, GAO, Debin, CHANG, Rocky K. C., HE, En, CHENG, Eric K. T., DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4317; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5320/viewcontent/ndss19.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Open TCP/UDP ports are traditionally used by servers to provide application services, but they are also found in many Android apps. In this paper, we present the first open-port analysis pipeline, covering the discovery, diagnosis, and security assessment, to systematically understand open ports in...