TY - GEN
T1 - Android market reconstruction and analysis
AU - Dering, Matthew L.
AU - McDaniel, Patrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/13
Y1 - 2014/11/13
N2 - With the rise in both personal and official smartphone use by the military, large scale application store analysis is an appealing idea, but until now there has been no real method of quickly accumulating a large library for analysis. In this paper we present a population study of permission and library use in Android apps, obtained from the Google Play Store. To accomplish this, we present a novel method for quickly reconnoitering a large database using a novel wordlist approach. Employing this method we compiled a library of over 700, 000 applications. By leveraging program analysis and data mining techniques, we analyzed how permissions and libraries are used in real world settings on a population-wide level. From this we were able to make several claims about the health and apparently direction of the Android ecosystem.
AB - With the rise in both personal and official smartphone use by the military, large scale application store analysis is an appealing idea, but until now there has been no real method of quickly accumulating a large library for analysis. In this paper we present a population study of permission and library use in Android apps, obtained from the Google Play Store. To accomplish this, we present a novel method for quickly reconnoitering a large database using a novel wordlist approach. Employing this method we compiled a library of over 700, 000 applications. By leveraging program analysis and data mining techniques, we analyzed how permissions and libraries are used in real world settings on a population-wide level. From this we were able to make several claims about the health and apparently direction of the Android ecosystem.
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U2 - 10.1109/MILCOM.2014.52
DO - 10.1109/MILCOM.2014.52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84912553401
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM
SP - 300
EP - 305
BT - Proceedings - 2014 IEEE Military Communications Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 33rd Annual IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2014
Y2 - 6 October 2014 through 8 October 2014
ER -