Hi Daniela, You might want to look at the "Kirin" Safe installer research paper from Penn state University. McDaniel et al.\ They have a form of static analysis by checking permission combinations at install time. >From the paper, you will get an idea of how thing work.
cheers, Earlence On Oct 9, 2:21 pm, daniela <daniela.anton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a university project which should be completed in 2 > months. The aim of the project is to classify Android apps as secure > or less so. I am hoping to achieve this by statically analysing apps > after they are downloaded and (possibly) before they are installed. > The analysis would be simple in the beginning and hopefully get more > sophisticated if there is time. As far as I understand, running the > analysis on a device would be the greatest difficulty, so my question > is: Is this project feasible given the time frame? > > Also, I would be very grateful for any pointers to relevant > information, such as classes in the Android framework which do > security checks after an application is downloaded, for example. > > Thank you very much indeed! > daniela -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
