Bittersweet ADB
Sungjae Hwang, Sungho Lee, Yongdae Kim, Sukyoung Ryu · 2015
Android devices and applications become prevalent and ask for unanticipated capabilities thanks to the increased interests in smartphones and web applications. As a way to use the capabilities not directly available to ordinary users, applications have used Android Debug Bridge (ADB), a command line tool to communicate with Android devices for debugging purposes. While ADB provides powerful features that require permissions to use critical system resources, it opens a gate to adversaries.