InsDal: A safe and extensible instrumentation tool on Dalvik byte-code for Android applications

2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) Pub Date : 2017-02-01 DOI:10.1109/SANER.2017.7884662

Jierui Liu, Tianyong Wu, Xi Deng, Jun Yan, Jian Zhang

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Program instrumentation is a widely used technique in dynamic analysis and testing, which makes use of probe code inserted to the target program to monitor its behaviors, or log runtime information for off-line analysis. There are a number of automatic tools for instrumentation on the source or byte code of Java programs. However, few works address this issue on the register-based Dalvik byte-code of ever-increasing Android apps. This paper presents a lightweight tool, InsDal, for inserting instructions to specific points of the Dalvik byte-code according to the requirements of users. It carefully manages the registers to protect the behavior of original code from illegal manipulation, and optimizes the inserted code to avoid memory waste and unnecessary overhead. This tool is easy to use and has been applied to several scenarios (e.g. energy analysis, code coverage analysis). A demo video of our tool can be found at the website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpw-aygZ3kE.

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一个安全且可扩展的工具，用于Android应用程序的Dalvik字节码

程序插装是动态分析和测试中广泛使用的一种技术，它利用插入到目标程序中的探测代码来监视其行为，或记录运行时信息以进行脱机分析。有许多用于检测Java程序的源代码或字节码的自动工具。然而，很少有作品在不断增加的Android应用程序的基于寄存器的Dalvik字节码上解决这个问题。本文介绍了一个轻量级的工具InsDal，它可以根据用户的要求将指令插入到Dalvik字节码的特定点上。它仔细地管理寄存器，以保护原始代码的行为不受非法操纵，并优化插入的代码，以避免内存浪费和不必要的开销。这个工具很容易使用，并且已经应用于几个场景(例如能源分析，代码覆盖分析)。我们的工具的演示视频可以在网站上找到:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpw-aygZ3kE。

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