Dark hazard: Large-scale discovery of unknown hidden sensitive operations in Android apps

• Main Authors: PAN, Xiaorui, WANG, Xueqiang, DUAN, Yue, WANG, Xiaofeng, YIN, Heng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; OS and Networks
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8173; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9176/viewcontent/ndss2017_05A_1_Pan_paper__2_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Hidden sensitive operations (HSO) such as stealing privacy user data upon receiving an SMS message are increasingly utilized by mobile malware and other potentially-harmful apps (PHAs) to evade detection. Identification of such behaviors is hard, due to the challenge in triggering them during an app...