Don't Be Surprised: I See Your Mobile App Stealing Your Data

Swarna Gopalan; Aditi Kulkarni; Arpitaben Narendrabhai Shah; Jun Dai; Jinsong Ouyang; Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik; Xiaoyan Sun

doi:10.1109/ICCNC.2018.8390242

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Don't Be Surprised: I See Your Mobile App Stealing Your Data

Swarna Gopalan, Aditi Kulkarni, Arpitaben Narendrabhai Shah, Jun Dai, Jinsong Ouyang, Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik and Xiaoyan Sun

2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp.774-778

03/2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2018.8390242

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12741/rep:4219

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mobile application

Tools

Mobile applications

Security

data leakage

Android

system call

Sockets

Malware

Kernel

security test

Smart phones

activity graph

To detect the potential malicious mobile applications that may cause data leakages, this paper 1 proposes to take advantage of the attack-neutral and hard-to-avoid system calls of the mobile system, reconstructing an activity graph for each application to reflect its interactions with the system. This paper makes efforts to automate the activity graph generation in Android, with the main contribution being an open source tool that can be of great assistance for the test team of application stores. The tool's effectiveness has been validated by our evaluation against some existing or home-brewed mobile applications that leak data. 1 This paper is a report of research outcomes from open source master projects [4]-[6], and the resultant code can be shared upon request.

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Title: Don't Be Surprised: I See Your Mobile App Stealing Your Data
Creators: Swarna Gopalan - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Aditi Kulkarni - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Arpitaben Narendrabhai Shah - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Jun Dai - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Jinsong Ouyang - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Xiaoyan Sun - Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA
Academic Unit: Computer Science Department
Publisher: IEEE
Publication Details: 03/2018
Identifiers: 99257847566501671; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12741/rep:4219; https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2018.8390242
Language: English

Don't Be Surprised: I See Your Mobile App Stealing Your Data

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