I know what leaked in your pocket: uncovering privacy leaks on Android Apps with Static Taint Analysis

Understand

Android applications may leak privacy data carelessly or maliciously.

• In this work we perform inter-component data-flow analysis to detect privacy leaks between components of Android applications.
• Unlike all current approaches, our tool, called IccTA, propagates the context between the components, which improves the precision of the analysis.
• IccTA outperforms all other available tools by reaching a precision of 95.0% and a recall of 82.6% on DroidBench.