Enriching reverse engineering through visual exploration of Android binaries
Ashutosh Jain, Hugo Gonzalez, Natalia Stakhanova · 2015
The appearance of the Android platform and its popularity has resulted in a sharp rise in the number of reported vulnerabilities and consequently in the number of mobile threats. Leveraging openness of Android app markets and the lack of security testing, malware authors commonly employ a suite of widely available tools to facilitate the app development. Analysis of individual apps for malware detection often requires understanding of app functionality and complex, time-consuming analysis of its behavior. Since tools tend to leave traces in the program structure, we can potentially use visual exploration of these artifacts to enrich reverse engineering of malware analysis.