• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.23-27
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• 2022

In this paper, we explore a new type of Android evasive malware based on the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) that does not perform malicious task when it discerns that dynamic analyzer is input generator. More specifically, a new type of Android evasive malware leverages the intuition that dynamic analyzer provides as many inputs within a certain amount of time as possible to Android apps to be tested, while human users generally provide necessary inputs to Android apps to be used. Under this intuition, it harnesses the SPRT to discern whether dynamic analyzer runs in Android system or not in such a way that the number of inputs per time slot exceeding a preset threshold is regarded as evidence that inputs are provided by dynamic analyzer, expediting the SPRT to decide that dynamic analyzer operates in Android system and evasive malware does not carry out malicious task.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.93-98
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• 2010

Recently, users using social network service(SNS) with smart phone as well as users using smart phone are so rapidly increasing. In this paper, Android based local SNS system is proposed and developed. The main feature and contribution are as follows. First, the proposed SNS system is developed based on smart phone Android for supporting both the search of neighbor users and the addition of friends to start SNS with Web/DB. Second, the system is designed with the unchanged basic UI of Android and user oriented approach. The performance evaluation is performed by using OPTIMUS-Q/ANDROID 2.1. The results of performance evaluation show that the proposed SNS system can efficiently support the neighbor search services by using android based bluetooth neighbor search. Currently, we are still ongoing working on bluetooth autofaring in android to improve the performance of the proposed system.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.319-327
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• 2013

Most Android applications are being developed by one or a few person without professional testing team. In such a poor development environment, applications may contain severe errors which may also affect the Android platform. In order to detect these errors, the behaviors of Android activities should be identified by considering user-defined lifecycle as well as the system-defined one. This paper proposes a method to generate test scenarios based on the both of user-defined and system-defined activity lifecycle of Android GUI applications. The test scenarios are generated by a state diagram extracted from the source code and are transformed into Jython scribes by using GUI layout information for automatically performing testing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.327-330
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• 2012

In the rapid growth of cities, road has heavy traffic and many buildings are under constructions. These kinds of environments make more difficulty for a person who is visually handicapped to walk comfortable. To alleviate the problem, we introduce Android based Portable Navigation System to help walking for Visually Impaired Person. It follows, service center give instant real time monitoring to visually impaired person for their convenient by this system. Android based Portable Navigation System has GPS, Camera, Audio and WI-FI(wireless fidelity) available. It means that GPS location and Camera image information can be sent to service center by WI-FI network. To be specific, transmitted GPS location information enables service center to figure out the visually impaired person's whereabouts and mark the location on the map. By delivered Camera image information, service center monitors the visually impaired person's view. Also, they can offer live guidance to visually impaired person by equipped Audio with live talking. To sum up, Android based Portable Navigation System is a specialized navigation system that gives practical effect to realize more comfortable walking for visually impaired person.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.224-226
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• 2015

Recently, Android-based mobile devices has increased. Thus increasing market share of the Android operating system. However, in the case of the Android operating system, it has the relatively large number of security vulnerabilities Unlike other closed operating systems. Most Android application requires the identity of the mobile device or over-authorization approval. This information can be a security threat. In addition, in the event of a security problem because obtaining the user's consent during the installation of the application is the user responsible. If these problems persist, loss of reliability of the user operating system, as well as to feel a resistance when using an Android application. In this paper, we investigate a security vulnerability in the Android operating system, and proposed countermeasures.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.19A no.4
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• pp.187-194
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• 2012

This paper proposes a string analysis based system for classifying Android Apps that may access so called harmful sites, and shows an experiment result for real Android apps on the market. The system first transforms Android App binary codes into Java byte codes, it performs string analysis to compute a set of strings at all program points, and it classifies the Android App as bad ones if the computed set contains URLs that are classified because the sites provide inappropriate contents. In the proposed approach, the system performs such a classification in the stage of distribution before installing and executing the Apps. Furthermore, the system is suitable for the automatic management of Android Apps in the market. The proposed system can be combined with the existing methods using DNS servers or monitoring modules to identify harmful Android apps better in different stages.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.367-372
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• 2022

In the age of smartphones, users accomplish their daily tasks using their smartphones due to the significant growth in smartphone technology. Due to these tremendous expansions, attackers are highly motivated to penetrate numerous mobile marketplaces with their developed malicious apps. Android has the biggest proportion of the overall market share when compared to other platforms including Windows, iOS, and Blackberry. This research will discuss the Android security features, vulnerabilities and threats, in addition to some existing protection mechanisms.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.565-568
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• 2011

Google Android framework consists of an operating system and software platform for mobile devices. Using a general-purpose Linux operating system in mobile device has some advantages but also security risks. Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a kernel-based protection approach which can help to reduce potential damage from successful attacks. However, there are some challenges to integrate SELinux in Android. In this research, we do a study on how to do the integration and find out four challenges. The first one is that the Android file system (yaff2) does not support security namespace for extended attribute (xattr) which is required by SELinux. The second one is that it's difficult to apply SELinux policy to Dalvik process on which an Android application runs on. The third one is that Android lacks methods, tools and libraries to interact with SELinux. The last one is how to update the SELinux policy automatically when installing or removing an application. In this paper, we propose solutions for the above limitations that make the SELinux more adaptive and suitable for Android framework.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.57-62
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• 2022

The Sambodana project is a mobile communication security system development project using Hardening Android. The initial idea for this project is that information leakage occurs outside of a communications application with end-to-end cryptographic security. Android hardening prevents unwanted applications and bloatware from being installed, such as unavailable Google Play Store or install restrictions.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2016

Due to open source policy, Android systems are exposed to a variety of security problems. In particular, app reuse attacks are detrimental threat to the Android system security. This is because attacker can create core malign components and quickly generate a bunch of malicious apps by reusing these components. Hence, it is very imperative to discern whether Android apps contain reused components. To meet this need, we propose an Android app reuse analysis technique based on the Sequential Hypothesis Testing. This technique quickly makes a decision with a few number of samples whether a set of Android apps is made through app reuse. We performed experimental study with 6 malicious app groups, 1 google and 1 third-party app group such that each group consists of 100 Android apps. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed analysis technique efficiently judges Android app groups with reused components.