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Reflection-aware static analysis of Android apps

Li Li, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Damien Octeau, Jacques Klein

Full textDOI 10.1145/2970276.2970277dblp

Abstract

We demonstrate the benefits of DroidRA, a tool for taming reflection in Android apps. DroidRA first statically extracts reflection-related object values from a given Android app. Then, it leverages the extracted values to boost the app in a way that reflective calls are no longer a challenge for existing static analyzers. This is achieved through a bytecode instrumentation approach, where reflective calls are supplemented with explicit traditional Java method calls which can be followed by state-of-the-art analyzers which do not handle reflection. Instrumented apps can thus be completely analyzed by existing static analyzers, which are no longer required to be modified to support reflection-aware analysis. The video demo of DroidRA can be found at https://youtu.be/HW0V68aAWc

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Li-al:ASE16,
  author    = {Li Li and
               Tegawend{\'{e}} F. Bissyand{\'{e}} and
               Damien Octeau and
               Jacques Klein},
  title     = {Reflection-aware static analysis of Android apps},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {756--761},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2016},
}

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