A Practical Compartmentation Approach for the Android App Coexistence
Hongmu Han, Ruixuan Li · 2017
Android operation system (OS) provides a number of covert and overt communication channels between applications. This significant promotes inter-app collaboration and reduces development time and cost by facilitating component reuse. Unfortunately, inter-app communication has been shown to be vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks, such as confused deputy attacks, collusion attacks. It is an economic and effective method to mitigate privilege escalation attacks by isolation. However, it is unclear which apps should be put together in the same compartment. In addition, users rely on some inter-app collaborations to provide services.