AppsPlayground: automatic security analysis of smartphone applications

Abstract

Today's smartphone application markets host an ever increasing number of applications. The sheer number of applications makes their review a daunting task. We propose AppsPlayground for Android, a framework that automates the analysis smartphone applications. AppsPlayground integrates multiple components comprising different detection and automatic exploration techniques for this purpose. We evaluated the system using multiple large scale and small scale experiments involving real benign and malicious applications. Our evaluation shows that AppsPlayground is quite effective at automatically detecting privacy leaks and malicious functionality in applications.