Title
Towards a multilayered permission-based access control for extending Android security.
Abstract
This paper discusses security issues on the user equipment, which is the last mile of social networks. One of the main Achilles' heel of social networks is not the organization of networks themselves, but the user devices, typically Android ones. The existing system of privileges makes it easy to infiltrate the network via applications installed on users' devices. Conventional signature-based and static analysis methods are vulnerable. Access to privacy- and security-relevant parts of the application programming interface is controlled by the corresponding permission in a manifest file. While requesting access to permissions, it may offer opportunities to malicious codes, which will cause security issues. Few works among permission analysis, however, pay attention to the prevention of permission leakage on both hardware and software frameworks. In this paper we tackle the challenge of providing our multilayered permission-based security extension scheme on Android platforms. We propose a usage and access control model and an effective method of preventing permission leakage based on ARM TrustZone security extension mechanism. In contrast to previous work, the proposed security architecture provides a permission-based mandatory access control on Android middleware, Linux kernel, and hardware layers. The evaluation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in mitigating permission leakage vulnerabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1002/cpe.4180
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
access control,Android security,multilayered,permission,sandbox
Sandbox (computer security),Permission,Android (operating system),Computer science,Computer security,Mandatory access control,Discretionary access control,Access control,Enterprise information security architecture,Linux kernel
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
SP5
1532-0626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
14
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Chang138939.86
Liehui Jiang2156.94
Wenzhi Chen314128.65
Hong-qi He422.20
Shuiqiao Yang562.55
Jiang Hang622.61
Wei Liu722.16
Yong Liu810.43