Towards Taming Privilege-Escalation Attacks on Android

By Sven Bugiel, Lucas Davi, Alexandra Dmitrienko, Thomas Fischer, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Bhargava Shastry. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2012

416 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a8432f8160dc899e66976b9887efa1d4a544cd56

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Citations in the corpus

• Why eve and mallory love android: an analysis of android SSL (in)security (2012, background): “[3] showed that colluding malicious apps can facilitate information leakage.”
• Unsafe exposure analysis of mobile in-app advertisements (2012, background): “Note that there are some ongoing research projects that aim to detect or mitigate these attacks [9, 10, 11, 18].”
• Vetting undesirable behaviors in android apps with permission use analysis (2013, background): “Bugiel et al. [15] proposed system-centric and policy-driven runtime monitoring of communication channels between applications at both Android-level and kernel-level, which could prevent not only re-delegation attacks but also collusion attacks.”
• MADAM: Effective and Efficient Behavior-based Android Malware Detection and Prevention (2018, background): “Along with the vast increase of Android malware, several security solutions have been proposed by the research community, spanning from static or dynamic analysis of apps [4], to applying security policies enforcing data security [5], [6], to run-time enforcement [7], [8].”
• Security Enhanced (SE) Android: Bringing Flexible MAC to Android (2013, background): “Our work would in turn benefit from incorporating some of the ideas for runtime MMAC that have been explored in TrustDroid and XManDroid.”
• RiskRanker: scalable and accurate zero-day android malware detection (2012, unknown): “[33] use a run-time monitor to regulate communications between apps.”
• Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution (2012, background): “Accordingly, researches have proposed several possible solutions [37] [40] [41] to this issue.”