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Mobile App Analysis in the New Era: Challenges and the Road Ahead
Jiale Wu, Tianming Liu, Yanjie Zhao +1
Mobile applications (apps) have grown into complex, multi-platform systems that support diverse services and operate within varying regulatory and distribution contexts. Traditiona…
NotDec: WebAssembly Decompilation With Inter-Procedural Type Recovery
Jikai Wang, Ningyu He, Tianming Liu +2
With WebAssembly widely supported in browsers, containers, IoT devices, and serverless platforms and increasingly adopted as a universal low-level bytecode standard, auditing its h…
Understanding User Privacy Perceptions of GenAI Smartphones
Ran Jin, Liu Wang, Shidong Pan +3
GenAI smartphones, which natively embed generative AI at the system level, are transforming mobile interactions by automating a wide range of tasks and executing UI actions on beha…
From Assistants to Adversaries: Exploring the Security Risks of Mobile LLM Agents
Liangxuan Wu, Chao Wang, Tianming Liu +2
The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) has led to a new paradigm in mobile computing--LLM-powered mobile AI agents--capable of decomposing and automating complex task…
Beyond App Markets: Demystifying Underground Mobile App Distribution Via Telegram
Yanhui Guo, Dong Wang, Liu Wang +5
Within the thriving mobile app ecosystem ecosystem, a subset of apps provides illicit services such as gambling and pornography to pursue economic gains, collectively referred to a…
Same App, Different Behaviors: Uncovering Device-specific Behaviors in Android Apps
Zikan Dong, Yanjie Zhao, Tianming Liu +4
The Android ecosystem faces a notable challenge known as fragmentation, which denotes the extensive diversity within the system. This issue is mainly related to differences in syst…
WALLETRADAR: Towards Automating the Detection of Vulnerabilities in Browser-based Cryptocurrency Wallets
Pengcheng Xia, Yanhui Guo, Zhaowen Lin +8
Cryptocurrency wallets, acting as fundamental infrastructure to the blockchain ecosystem, have seen significant user growth, particularly among browser-based wallets (i.e., browser…
Dataset Bias in Android Malware Detection
Yan Lin, Tianming Liu, Wei Liu +4
Researchers have proposed kinds of malware detection methods to solve the explosive mobile security threats. We argue that the experiment results are inflated due to the research b…
Research on Third-Party Libraries in AndroidApps: A Taxonomy and Systematic LiteratureReview
Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Lingling Fan +4
Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one ha…
A Systematic Assessment on Android Third-party Library Detection Tools
Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Yepang Liu +4
Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become a significant part of the Android ecosystem. Developers can employ various TPLs to facilitate their app development. Unfortunately, the pop…
ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Applications
Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen +4
We propose a system, named ATVHunter, which can pinpoint the precise vulnerable in-app TPL versions and provide detailed information about the vulnerabilities and TPLs. We propose…
MadDroid: Characterising and Detecting Devious Ad Content for Android Apps
Tianming Liu, Haoyu Wang, Li Li +6
Advertisement drives the economy of the mobile app ecosystem. As a key component in the mobile ad business model, mobile ad content has been overlooked by the research community, w…