Active warden attack: On the (in)effectiveness of Android app repackage-proofing

• Main Authors: MA, Haoyu, LI, Shijia, GAO, Debin, WU, Daoyuan, JIA, Qiaowen, JIA, Chunfu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Android security; app repackage-proofing; active warden attack; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6703; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7706/viewcontent/tdsc_2021_1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

App repackaging has raised serious concerns to the Android ecosystem with the repackage-proofing technology attracting attention in the Android research community. In this paper, we first show that existing repackage-proofing schemes rely on a flawed security assumption, and then propose a new class...