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μDep: Mutation-Based Dependency Generation for Precise Taint Analysis on Android Native Code

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Cong Sun *
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Yuwan Ma
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Dongrui Zeng
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Gang Tan
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Siqi Ma
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Yafei Wu
DOI:10.1109/TDSC.2022.3155693delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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The existence of native code in Android apps plays an important role in triggering inconspicuous propagation of secrets and circumventing malware detection. However, the state-of-the-art information-flow analysis tools for Android apps all have limited capabilities of analyzing native code. Due to the complexity of binary-level static analysis, most static analyzers choose to build conservative models for a selected portion of native code. Though the recent inter-language analysis improves the capability of tracking information flow in native code, it is still far from attaining similar effectiveness of the state-of-the-art information-flow analyzers that focus on non-native Java methods. To overcome the above constraints, we propose a new analysis framework, mu Dep, to detect sensitive information flows of the Android apps containing native code. In this framework, we combine a control-flow based static binary analysis with a mutation-based dynamic analysis to model the tainting behaviors of native code in the apps. Based on the result of the analyses, mDep conducts a stub generation for the related native functions to facilitate the state-of-the-art analyzer DroidSafe with finegrained tainting behavior summaries of native code. The experimental results show that our framework is competitive on the accuracy, and effective in analyzing the information flows in real-world apps and malware compared with the state-of-the-art inter-language static analysis.
Keywords:
Codes
Java
Static analysis
Libraries
Data models
Semantics
Load modeling
Android
information flow analysis
java native interface
static analysis

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
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pennsylvania commonwealth system of higher education (pcshe)
Scholars:
12.9W
Papers: 11.7W
Citations: 177
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Xidian University
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2.4W
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