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Understanding android app piggybacking

  • Li Li
  • , Daoyuan Li
  • , Tegawende F. Bissyande
  • , Jacques Klein
  • , Yves Le Traon
  • , David Lo
  • , Lorenzo Cavallaro
  • University of Luxembourg
  • Singapore Management University
  • Royal Holloway University of London

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Abstract

The Android packaging model offers adequate opportunities for attackers to inject malicious code into popular benign apps, attempting to develop new malicious apps that can then be easily spread to a large user base. Despite the fact that the literature has already presented a number of tools to detect piggybacked apps, there is still lacking a comprehensive investigation on the piggybacking processes. To fill this gap, in this work, we collect a large set of benign/piggybacked app pairs that can be taken as benchmark apps for further investigation. We manually look into these benchmark pairs for understanding the characteristics of piggybacking apps and eventually we report 20 interesting findings. We expect these findings to initiate new research directions such as practical and scalable piggybacked app detection, explainable malware detection, and malicious code location.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages359-361
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781538615898
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Duration: 20 May 201728 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017

Conference

Conference39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017
Country/TerritoryArgentina
CityBuenos Aires
Period20/05/1728/05/17

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