Android Application Analysis using Reverse Engineering Techniques and Taint-Aware Slicing

Android is a victim of its own success, not just in the way it has attracted malicious attention, but in its very nature. One of the reasons the OS has succeeded in gaining market share so rapidly is that it is open source; it is essentially free for manufacturers to implement. Android platform provide only coarse-grained permissions to users with regard to how third party applications use sensitive private data. Malicious applications pose a threat to the security of the Android platform. The growing amount and diversity of these applications render conventional defenses largely ineffective and thus Android smartphones often remain unprotected from novel malware. In this paper, we propose AT2: "Android Taint Analysis Tool", a lightweight tool