A detection method of Android application malicious behaviors based on Xposed framework
Wang Sai
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王赛(1990-),女,硕士研究生,主要研究方向:移动互联网安全
Guo Yanhui
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郭燕慧(1974-),女,副教授,研究方向:内容安全,软件安全
Wu Qiuxin
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吴秋新(1967-),男,副教授,主要研究方向:信息安全
Liu Yuandong
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刘元冬(1991-),男,硕士研究生,主要研究方向:信息安全
1、Software Security Center,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876
2、School of Applied Science,Beijing Information Science and Technology University,Beijing 100196
Abstract:With the increasingly prominent malicious attacks of Android terminal, this paper proposes a detection method of Android application malicious behaviors based on Xposed framework to optimize the existing method both in trigger and capture. In the trigger aspect, the method build a tree based on interface elements and traversal it to carry out an automation test that can make a full coverage of the elements. It can trigger malicious behaviors as much as possible. As for the capture aspect, this method develops a dynamic sensitive API monitor module based on Xposed framework, with which we can detect the malicious behaviors through the direct monitor of Android system sensitive API call. And it can get more information about the call and its parameters. The experimental results show that this method can effectively detect the malicious behaviors. Furthermore, it is much more convenient to monitor the behavoirs with a strong scalability.