![]() ; ; et al in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2021), 30(3), 1-38 Detailed reference viewed: 35 (0 UL)![]() ; Gao, Jun ![]() ![]() in The 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis (2020, September) In this work, we describe the design and implementation of a reusable tool named KnowledgeZooClient targeting the construction, as a crowd-sourced effort, of a knowledge graph for Android apps ... [more ▼] In this work, we describe the design and implementation of a reusable tool named KnowledgeZooClient targeting the construction, as a crowd-sourced effort, of a knowledge graph for Android apps. KnowledgeZooClient is made up of two modules: (1) the Metadata Extraction Module (MEM), which aims at extracting metadata from Android apps and (2) the Metadata Integration Module (MIM) for importing and integrating extracted metadata into a graph database. The usefulness of KnowledgeZooClient is demonstrated via an exclusive knowledge graph called KnowledgeZoo, which contains information on over 500,000 apps already and still keeps growing. Interested users can already benefit from KnowledgeZoo by writing advanced search queries so as to collect targeted app samples. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 40 (7 UL)![]() ; ; et al in Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (2020, April) Advertisement drives the economy of the mobile app ecosystem. As a key component in the mobile ad business model, mobile ad content has been overlooked by the research community, which poses a number of ... [more ▼] Advertisement drives the economy of the mobile app ecosystem. As a key component in the mobile ad business model, mobile ad content has been overlooked by the research community, which poses a number of threats, e.g., propagating malware and undesirable contents. To understand the practice of these devious ad behaviors, we perform a large-scale study on the app contents harvested through automated app testing. In this work, we first provide a comprehensive categorization of devious ad contents, including five kinds of behaviors belonging to two categories: ad loading content and ad clicking content. Then, we propose MadDroid, a framework for automated detection of devious ad contents. MadDroid leverages an automated app testing framework with a sophisticated ad view exploration strategy for effectively collecting ad-related network traffic and subsequently extracting ad contents. We then integrate dedicated approaches into the framework to identify devious ad contents. We have applied MadDroid to 40,000 Android apps and found that roughly 6% of apps deliver devious ad contents, e.g., distributing malicious apps that cannot be downloaded via traditional app markets. Experiment results indicate that devious ad contents are prevalent, suggesting that our community should invest more effort into the detection and mitigation of devious ads towards building a trustworthy mobile advertising ecosystem. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 110 (0 UL)![]() ; Riom, Timothée ![]() ![]() in Journal of Systems and Software (2019), 154 Detailed reference viewed: 79 (1 UL)![]() ; Bissyande, Tegawendé François D Assise ![]() in Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2019), 34(2), 437-455 Detailed reference viewed: 57 (1 UL)![]() ; ; et al in ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018) (2018, November) Detailed reference viewed: 207 (5 UL)![]() ; Bissyande, Tegawendé François D Assise ![]() in International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) (2018, July) Detailed reference viewed: 183 (3 UL) |
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