作者: Damien Octeau , William Enck , Patrick McDaniel , Swarat Chaudhuri
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摘要: The fluidity of application markets complicate smartphone security. Although recent efforts have shed light on particular security issues, there remains little insight into broader characteristics applications. This paper seeks to better understand by studying 1,100 popular free Android We introduce the ded decompiler, which recovers source code directly from its installation image. design and execute a horizontal study applications based static analysis 21 million lines recovered code. Our uncovered pervasive use/misuse personal/ phone identifiers, deep penetration advertising analytics networks. However, we did not find evidence malware or exploitable vulnerabilities in studied conclude considering implications these preliminary findings offer directions for future analysis.