Hack Android application and defence

Author

Xudong Wu ; Xin Li

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Inf. Network Security, Minist. of Public Security, People´s Republic of China, Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

12-13 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

676

Lastpage

680

Abstract

Now Android is the most popular smart device´s operating system, at the same time the attacks aimed at Android increases very fast. The security problem is more and more important for Android and the researchers pay more attention to Android´s security. This paper analysis the character of Android application file and its load and execute process, then based on the analysis provide two methods to hack Android application: static method and dynamic method. Using this two kinds of method can successful hack Android´s application whatever the application is running or not. At last we discuss how to detect and prevent this kind of attacks.

Keywords

Android (operating system); mobile computing; program diagnostics; security of data; Android application file; Android application hack; Android security; dynamic method; execute process; load process; security problem; smart device operating system; static method; Androids; Computer hacking; Humanoid robots; Libraries; Smart phones; Android; apk file; application hack; mobile security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Network Technology (ICCSNT), 2013 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSNT.2013.6967202

Filename

6967202