By the analysis of vulnerabilities of Android native system services,we find that some vulnerabilities are caused by inconsistent data transmission and inconsistent data processing logic between client and server.The ...By the analysis of vulnerabilities of Android native system services,we find that some vulnerabilities are caused by inconsistent data transmission and inconsistent data processing logic between client and server.The existing research cannot find the above two types of vulnerabilities and the test cases of them face the problem of low coverage.In this paper,we propose an extraction method of test cases based on the native system services of the client and design a case construction method that supports multi-parameter mutation based on genetic algorithm and priority strategy.Based on the above method,we implement a detection tool-BArcherFuzzer to detect vulnerabilities of Android native system services.The experiment results show that BArcherFuzzer found four vulnerabilities of hundreds of exception messages,all of them were confirmed by Google and one was assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVE)number(CVE-2020-0363).展开更多
The prevalence of smartphones is deeply embedded in modern society,impacting various aspects of our lives.Their versatility and functionalities have fundamentally changed how we communicate,work,seek entertainment,and...The prevalence of smartphones is deeply embedded in modern society,impacting various aspects of our lives.Their versatility and functionalities have fundamentally changed how we communicate,work,seek entertainment,and access information.Among the many smartphones available,those operating on the Android platform dominate,being the most widely used type.This widespread adoption of the Android OS has significantly contributed to increased malware attacks targeting the Android ecosystem in recent years.Therefore,there is an urgent need to develop new methods for detecting Android malware.The literature contains numerous works related to Android malware detection.As far as our understanding extends,we are the first ones to identify dangerous combinations of permissions and system calls to uncover malicious behavior in Android applications.We introduce a novel methodology that pairs permissions and system calls to distinguish between benign and malicious samples.This approach combines the advantages of static and dynamic analysis,offering a more comprehensive understanding of an application’s behavior.We establish covalent bonds between permissions and system calls to assess their combined impact.We introduce a novel technique to determine these pairs’Covalent Bond Strength Score.Each pair is assigned two scores,one for malicious behavior and another for benign behavior.These scores serve as the basis for classifying applications as benign or malicious.By correlating permissions with system calls,the study enables a detailed examination of how an app utilizes its requested permissions,aiding in differentiating legitimate and potentially harmful actions.This comprehensive analysis provides a robust framework for Android malware detection,marking a significant contribution to the field.The results of our experiments demonstrate a remarkable overall accuracy of 97.5%,surpassing various state-of-the-art detection techniques proposed in the current literature.展开更多
隐私政策文档声明了应用程序需要获取的隐私信息,但不能保证清晰且完全披露应用获取的隐私信息类型,目前对应用实际敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析的研究仍存在不足。针对上述问题,提出一种Android应用敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析方法...隐私政策文档声明了应用程序需要获取的隐私信息,但不能保证清晰且完全披露应用获取的隐私信息类型,目前对应用实际敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析的研究仍存在不足。针对上述问题,提出一种Android应用敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析方法。在隐私政策分析阶段,基于Bi-GRU-CRF(Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit Conditional Random Field)神经网络,通过添加自定义标注库对模型进行增量训练,实现对隐私政策声明中的关键信息的提取;在敏感行为分析阶段,通过对敏感应用程序接口(API)调用进行分类、对输入敏感源列表中已分析过的敏感API调用进行删除,以及对已提取过的敏感路径进行标记的方法来优化IFDS(Interprocedural,Finite,Distributive,Subset)算法,使敏感行为分析结果与隐私政策描述的语言粒度相匹配,并且降低分析结果的冗余,提高分析效率;在一致性分析阶段,将本体之间的语义关系分为等价关系、从属关系和近似关系,并据此定义敏感行为与隐私政策一致性形式化模型,将敏感行为与隐私政策一致的情况分为清晰的表述和模糊的表述,将不一致的情况分为省略的表述、不正确的表述和有歧义的表述,最后根据所提基于语义相似度的一致性分析算法对敏感行为与隐私政策进行一致性分析。实验结果表明,对928个应用程序进行分析,在隐私政策分析正确率为97.34%的情况下,51.4%的Android应用程序存在应用实际敏感行为与隐私政策声明不一致的情况。展开更多
The growing usage of Android smartphones has led to a significant rise in incidents of Android malware andprivacy breaches.This escalating security concern necessitates the development of advanced technologies capable...The growing usage of Android smartphones has led to a significant rise in incidents of Android malware andprivacy breaches.This escalating security concern necessitates the development of advanced technologies capableof automatically detecting andmitigatingmalicious activities in Android applications(apps).Such technologies arecrucial for safeguarding user data and maintaining the integrity of mobile devices in an increasingly digital world.Current methods employed to detect sensitive data leaks in Android apps are hampered by two major limitationsthey require substantial computational resources and are prone to a high frequency of false positives.This meansthat while attempting to identify security breaches,these methods often consume considerable processing powerand mistakenly flag benign activities as malicious,leading to inefficiencies and reduced reliability in malwaredetection.The proposed approach includes a data preprocessing step that removes duplicate samples,managesunbalanced datasets,corrects inconsistencies,and imputes missing values to ensure data accuracy.The Minimaxmethod is then used to normalize numerical data,followed by feature vector extraction using the Gain ratio andChi-squared test to identify and extract the most significant characteristics using an appropriate prediction model.This study focuses on extracting a subset of attributes best suited for the task and recommending a predictivemodel based on domain expert opinion.The proposed method is evaluated using Drebin and TUANDROMDdatasets containing 15,036 and 4,464 benign and malicious samples,respectively.The empirical result shows thatthe RandomForest(RF)and Support VectorMachine(SVC)classifiers achieved impressive accuracy rates of 98.9%and 98.8%,respectively,in detecting unknown Androidmalware.A sensitivity analysis experiment was also carriedout on all three ML-based classifiers based on MAE,MSE,R2,and sensitivity parameters,resulting in a flawlessperformance for both datasets.This approach has substantial potential for real-world applications and can serve asa valuable tool for preventing the spread of Androidmalware and enhancing mobile device security.展开更多
The Android Operating System(AOS)has been evolving since its inception and it has become one of the most widely used operating system for the Internet of Things(IoT).Due to the high popularity and reliability ofAOS fo...The Android Operating System(AOS)has been evolving since its inception and it has become one of the most widely used operating system for the Internet of Things(IoT).Due to the high popularity and reliability ofAOS for IoT,it is a target of many cyber-attacks which can cause compromise of privacy,financial loss,data integrity,unauthorized access,denial of services and so on.The Android-based IoT(AIoT)devices are extremely vulnerable to various malwares due to the open nature and high acceptance of Android in the market.Recently,several detection preventive malwares are developed to conceal their malicious activities from analysis tools.Hence,conventional malware detection techniques could not be applied and innovative countermeasures against such anti-detection malwares are indispensable to secure the AIoT.In this paper,we proposed the novel deep learning-based real-time multiclass malware detection techniques for the AIoT using dynamic analysis.The results show that the proposed technique outperforms existing malware detection techniques and achieves detection accuracy up to 99.87%.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2023YFB3106800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62072051).We are overwhelmed in all humbleness and gratefulness to acknowledge my depth to all those who have helped me to put these ideas.
文摘By the analysis of vulnerabilities of Android native system services,we find that some vulnerabilities are caused by inconsistent data transmission and inconsistent data processing logic between client and server.The existing research cannot find the above two types of vulnerabilities and the test cases of them face the problem of low coverage.In this paper,we propose an extraction method of test cases based on the native system services of the client and design a case construction method that supports multi-parameter mutation based on genetic algorithm and priority strategy.Based on the above method,we implement a detection tool-BArcherFuzzer to detect vulnerabilities of Android native system services.The experiment results show that BArcherFuzzer found four vulnerabilities of hundreds of exception messages,all of them were confirmed by Google and one was assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVE)number(CVE-2020-0363).
文摘The prevalence of smartphones is deeply embedded in modern society,impacting various aspects of our lives.Their versatility and functionalities have fundamentally changed how we communicate,work,seek entertainment,and access information.Among the many smartphones available,those operating on the Android platform dominate,being the most widely used type.This widespread adoption of the Android OS has significantly contributed to increased malware attacks targeting the Android ecosystem in recent years.Therefore,there is an urgent need to develop new methods for detecting Android malware.The literature contains numerous works related to Android malware detection.As far as our understanding extends,we are the first ones to identify dangerous combinations of permissions and system calls to uncover malicious behavior in Android applications.We introduce a novel methodology that pairs permissions and system calls to distinguish between benign and malicious samples.This approach combines the advantages of static and dynamic analysis,offering a more comprehensive understanding of an application’s behavior.We establish covalent bonds between permissions and system calls to assess their combined impact.We introduce a novel technique to determine these pairs’Covalent Bond Strength Score.Each pair is assigned two scores,one for malicious behavior and another for benign behavior.These scores serve as the basis for classifying applications as benign or malicious.By correlating permissions with system calls,the study enables a detailed examination of how an app utilizes its requested permissions,aiding in differentiating legitimate and potentially harmful actions.This comprehensive analysis provides a robust framework for Android malware detection,marking a significant contribution to the field.The results of our experiments demonstrate a remarkable overall accuracy of 97.5%,surpassing various state-of-the-art detection techniques proposed in the current literature.
文摘隐私政策文档声明了应用程序需要获取的隐私信息,但不能保证清晰且完全披露应用获取的隐私信息类型,目前对应用实际敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析的研究仍存在不足。针对上述问题,提出一种Android应用敏感行为与隐私政策一致性分析方法。在隐私政策分析阶段,基于Bi-GRU-CRF(Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit Conditional Random Field)神经网络,通过添加自定义标注库对模型进行增量训练,实现对隐私政策声明中的关键信息的提取;在敏感行为分析阶段,通过对敏感应用程序接口(API)调用进行分类、对输入敏感源列表中已分析过的敏感API调用进行删除,以及对已提取过的敏感路径进行标记的方法来优化IFDS(Interprocedural,Finite,Distributive,Subset)算法,使敏感行为分析结果与隐私政策描述的语言粒度相匹配,并且降低分析结果的冗余,提高分析效率;在一致性分析阶段,将本体之间的语义关系分为等价关系、从属关系和近似关系,并据此定义敏感行为与隐私政策一致性形式化模型,将敏感行为与隐私政策一致的情况分为清晰的表述和模糊的表述,将不一致的情况分为省略的表述、不正确的表述和有歧义的表述,最后根据所提基于语义相似度的一致性分析算法对敏感行为与隐私政策进行一致性分析。实验结果表明,对928个应用程序进行分析,在隐私政策分析正确率为97.34%的情况下,51.4%的Android应用程序存在应用实际敏感行为与隐私政策声明不一致的情况。
基金Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and Researchers Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2024R346)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘The growing usage of Android smartphones has led to a significant rise in incidents of Android malware andprivacy breaches.This escalating security concern necessitates the development of advanced technologies capableof automatically detecting andmitigatingmalicious activities in Android applications(apps).Such technologies arecrucial for safeguarding user data and maintaining the integrity of mobile devices in an increasingly digital world.Current methods employed to detect sensitive data leaks in Android apps are hampered by two major limitationsthey require substantial computational resources and are prone to a high frequency of false positives.This meansthat while attempting to identify security breaches,these methods often consume considerable processing powerand mistakenly flag benign activities as malicious,leading to inefficiencies and reduced reliability in malwaredetection.The proposed approach includes a data preprocessing step that removes duplicate samples,managesunbalanced datasets,corrects inconsistencies,and imputes missing values to ensure data accuracy.The Minimaxmethod is then used to normalize numerical data,followed by feature vector extraction using the Gain ratio andChi-squared test to identify and extract the most significant characteristics using an appropriate prediction model.This study focuses on extracting a subset of attributes best suited for the task and recommending a predictivemodel based on domain expert opinion.The proposed method is evaluated using Drebin and TUANDROMDdatasets containing 15,036 and 4,464 benign and malicious samples,respectively.The empirical result shows thatthe RandomForest(RF)and Support VectorMachine(SVC)classifiers achieved impressive accuracy rates of 98.9%and 98.8%,respectively,in detecting unknown Androidmalware.A sensitivity analysis experiment was also carriedout on all three ML-based classifiers based on MAE,MSE,R2,and sensitivity parameters,resulting in a flawlessperformance for both datasets.This approach has substantial potential for real-world applications and can serve asa valuable tool for preventing the spread of Androidmalware and enhancing mobile device security.
基金the MSIP and National Research Foundation of South Korea under Grant 2018R1D1A1B07049877.
文摘The Android Operating System(AOS)has been evolving since its inception and it has become one of the most widely used operating system for the Internet of Things(IoT).Due to the high popularity and reliability ofAOS for IoT,it is a target of many cyber-attacks which can cause compromise of privacy,financial loss,data integrity,unauthorized access,denial of services and so on.The Android-based IoT(AIoT)devices are extremely vulnerable to various malwares due to the open nature and high acceptance of Android in the market.Recently,several detection preventive malwares are developed to conceal their malicious activities from analysis tools.Hence,conventional malware detection techniques could not be applied and innovative countermeasures against such anti-detection malwares are indispensable to secure the AIoT.In this paper,we proposed the novel deep learning-based real-time multiclass malware detection techniques for the AIoT using dynamic analysis.The results show that the proposed technique outperforms existing malware detection techniques and achieves detection accuracy up to 99.87%.
