Covert Communication in Mobile Applications

This paper studies communication patterns in mobile applications. Our analysis shows that 63% of the external communication made by top-popular free Android applications from Google Play has no effect on the user-observable application functionality. To detect such covert communication in an efficie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rubin, Julia, Gordon, Michael I., Nguyen, Nguyen, Rinard, Martin C.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99941
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7280-1614
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-8523