Reference : Improving Privacy on Android Smartphones Through In-Vivo Bytecode Instrumentation
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/3889
Improving Privacy on Android Smartphones Through In-Vivo Bytecode Instrumentation
English
Bartel, Alexandre mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > >]
Klein, Jacques mailto [University of Lille, France]
Monperrus, Martin [> >]
Allix, Kevin mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) > ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)]
Le Traon, Yves mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC) >]
2012
uni.lu
9782879711119
Luxembourg
[en] in-vivo analysis ; Dalvik ; bytecode ; smartphones ; security policy
[en] In this paper we claim that a widely applicable and efficient means to fight against malicious mobile Android applications is: 1) to perform runtime monitoring 2) by instrumenting the application bytecode and 3) in-vivo, i.e. directly on the smartphone. We present a tool chain to do this and present experimental results showing that this tool chain can run on smartphones in a reasonable amount of time and with a realistic effort. Our findings also identify challenges to be addressed before running powerful runtime monitoring and instrumentations directly on smartphones. We implemented two use-cases leveraging the tool chain: FineGPolicy, a fine-grained user centric permission policy system and AdRemover an advertisement remover. Both prototypes improve the privacy of Android systems thanks to in-vivo bytecode instrumentation.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/3889
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