Attack of the Clones: Detecting Cloned Applications on Android Markets

摘要: We present DNADroid, a tool that detects Android application copying, or “cloning”, by robustly computing the similarity between two applications. DNADroid achieves this comparing program dependency graphs methods in candidate Using we found at least 141 applications have been victims of cloning, some as many seven times. has very low false positive rate — manually confirmed all detected are indeed clones either visual behavioral similarity. several case studies give insight into why cloned, including localization and redirecting ad revenue. describe malware being added to an show how was able detect variants same malware. Lastly, offer examples open source cracking used wild.