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A Study On A Feasible No-Root Approach On Android, Yao Cheng, Yingjiu Li, Deng, Robert H., Lingyun Ying, Wei He
A Study On A Feasible No-Root Approach On Android, Yao Cheng, Yingjiu Li, Deng, Robert H., Lingyun Ying, Wei He
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Root is the administrative privilege on Android, which is however inaccessible on stock Android devices. Due to the desire for privileged functionalities and the reluctance of rooting their devices, Android users seek for no-root approaches, which provide users with part of root privileges without rooting their devices. Existing no-root approaches require users to launch a separate service via Android Debug Bridge (ADB) on an Android device, which would perform user-desired tasks. However, it is unusual for a third-party Android application to work with a separate native service via sockets, and it requires the application developers to have extra knowledge such …
A Feasible No-Root Approach On Android, Yao Cheng, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
A Feasible No-Root Approach On Android, Yao Cheng, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Root is the administrative privilege on Android, which is however inaccessible on stock Android devices. Due to the desire for privileged functionalities and the reluctance of rooting their devices, Android users seek for no-root approaches, which provide users with part of root privileges without rooting their devices. In this paper, we newly discover a feasible no-root approach based on the ADB loopback. To ensure such no-root approach is not misused proactively, we examine its dark side, including privacy leakage via logs and user input inference. Finally, we discuss the solutions and suggestions from different perspectives.
Iccdetector: Icc-Based Malware Detection On Android, Xu Ke, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
Iccdetector: Icc-Based Malware Detection On Android, Xu Ke, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Most existing mobile malware detection methods (e.g., Kirin and DroidMat) are designed based on the resources required by malwares (e.g., permissions, application programming interface (API) calls, and system calls). These methods capture the interactions between mobile apps and Android system, but ignore the communications among components within or cross application boundaries. As a consequence, the majority of the existing methods are less effective in identifying many typical malwares, which require a few or no suspicious resources, but leverage on inter-component communication (ICC) mechanism when launching stealthy attacks. To address this challenge, we propose a new malware detection method, named ICCDetector. …