The soot-based toolchain for analyzing Android apps

摘要: Due to the quality and security requirements that come with an always-on mobile device processing large amounts of highly sensitive information, Android apps are important target for automated program analysis. Yet, research on new approaches in this field often requires a significant amount work be spent engineering tasks not central concrete question at hand. These programming debugging can significantly delay progress field. We therefore argue greatly benefits from having universal platform readily usable components well-tested fundamental algorithms top which researchers build their own prototypes. Besides decreasing required effort each piece research, such also provides base comparing different within one uniform framework, thereby fostering comparability reproducibility. In paper, we present Soot framework analysis various integrated open-source tools built it were designed re-usability mind. artifacts already core many commercial projects worldwide. shared platform, results tool only used as inputs others, but individual data objects passed around form API prototypes ease.