Security analysis of permission re-delegation vulnerabilities in Android apps

• Main Authors: DEMISSIE, Biniam Fisseha, CECCATO, Mariano, SHAR, Lwin Khin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Program analysis; Test case generation; Permission re-delegation; Android apps; Genetic algorithm; Natural language processing; Outlier detection; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5888; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6881/viewcontent/SecurityAnalysisOfPermissionRe.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Android platform facilitates reuse of app func- tionalities by allowing an app to request an action from another app through inter-process communication mechanism. This fea- ture is one of the reasons for the popularity of Android, but it also poses security risks to end users because malicious,...