Right to know, right to refuse: Towards UI perception-based automated fine-grained permission controls for Android apps

• Main Authors: MALVIYA, Vikas Kumar, LEOW, Chee Wei, ASHOK KASTHURI, YAN, Naing Tun, SHAR, Lwin Khin, JIANG, Lingxiao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: automated permission control; UI perception; Android application analysis; Android permissions; machine learning; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7777; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8780/viewcontent/ase22nier.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

It is the basic right of a user to know how the permissions are used within the Android app’s scope and to refuse the app if granted permissions are used for the activities other than specified use which can amount to malicious behavior. This paper proposes an approach and a vision to automatically...