Dynamic Analysis of Internal Android Systems
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Marc Rennhard
- Project team : Thomas Sutter
- Project budget : CHF 125'000
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Federal government
- Project partner : Bundesamt für Rüstung armasuisse / Cyber-Defence Campus
- Contact person : Marc Rennhard
Description
In this project, we focus on the current state of Android security. One main focus will be to determine current difficulties and limitations that hinder security researchers in performing a dynamic analysis of Android pre-installed software components such as pre-installed apps or native libraries. In a first step, we conduct a systematic literature review. Based on the findings of the stuy, we will derive potential solution ideas and will develop a concept and early prototypes (leveraging existing work where possible) for a security testing framework that will allow security researchers to dynamically test pre-installed Android software. The purpose of developing early proof-of-concept prototypes is to test the feasibility of our fundamental solution ideas.
Publications
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Sutter, Thomas; Tellenbach, Bernhard,
2023.
FirmwareDroid : towards automated static analysis of pre-installed android apps [paper].
In:
Klein, Jacques; Wei, Lili, eds.,
2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft).
10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft), Melbourne, Australia, 14-15 May 2023.
IEEE.
pp. 12-22.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/MOBILSoft59058.2023.00009