Title
Multi-Process Runtime Verification for Android
Abstract
With the popularity of Android, a huge number of Android apps appear in different markets. As some apps pose significant security risks, it is important to support runtime monitoring and verification on Android. Existing runtime verification frameworks only focus on verifying the events within a single process, ignoring that Android is a multi-process system where different components communicate frequently, and thus lack the ability to analyze and monitor behaviors across app processes. In this paper, we introduce our new runtime verification framework for Android, capable of performing runtime verification across multiple Android components in different processes. Our approach features an extended regular expression formalism, allowing one to specify complete analyses covering the whole Android system. We illustrate the use of our framework with an Android service characterization study and a monitor for permission (mis) use in apps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/APSEC.2017.89
2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Runtime Verification,Android,Instrumentation
Permission,Regular expression,Android (operating system),Computer science,Popularity,Runtime verification,Real-time computing,Operating system,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1362
978-1-5386-3682-4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haiyang Sun1188.18
Alexander North250.78
Walter Binder3107792.58