Abstract

We present a code analysis framework that performs scalable forced-path execution of Android applications in commodity hardware. Our goal is to reveal the full application functional behavior for large commercial applications without access to source code. We do so by identifying code blocks and API calls that are deemed sensitive and provide a security report to an analyst regarding the functionality of the Android application that is under inspection. We show that our approach is scalable by allowing for the execution of each software component by numerous instances of execution modules. Each execution instance exercises a different code path through the application call-graph leading to full code and state space coverage and exposing any hidden or unwanted functionality. The output is a list of API calls, parameter values, component call graphs, and control flow graphs. We show how this can be leveraged for automated policy enforcement of runtime functionality.

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