A temporal permission analysis and enforcement framework for Android

Permission-induced attacks, i.e., security breaches enabled by permission misuse, are among the most critical and frequent issues threatening the security of Android devices. By ignoring the temporal aspects of an attack during the analysis and enforcement, the state-of-the-art approaches aimed at p...

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Published in:2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 846 - 857
Main Authors: Sadeghi, Alireza, Jabbarvand, Reyhaneh, Ghorbani, Negar, Bagheri, Hamid, Malek, Sam
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Access Control (Permission)
Analytical models
Android
Androids
Humanoid robots
Informatics
Malware
Security
Security and privacy > Security services > Access control
Security and privacy > Systems security > Operating systems security > Mobile platform security
Temporal Logic
Theory of computation > Logic > Modal and temporal logics
temporal logic
access control (permission)
Android
ISBN:9781450356381, 1450356389
ISSN:1558-1225
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Summary:Permission-induced attacks, i.e., security breaches enabled by permission misuse, are among the most critical and frequent issues threatening the security of Android devices. By ignoring the temporal aspects of an attack during the analysis and enforcement, the state-of-the-art approaches aimed at protecting the users against such attacks are prone to have low-coverage in detection and high-disruption in prevention of permission-induced attacks. To address this shortcomings, we present Terminator, a temporal permission analysis and enforcement framework for Android. Leveraging temporal logic model checking,Terminator's analyzer identifies permission-induced threats with respect to dynamic permission states of the apps. At runtime, Terminator's enforcer selectively leases (i.e., temporarily grants) permissions to apps when the system is in a safe state, and revokes the permissions when the system moves to an unsafe state realizing the identified threats. The results of our experiments, conducted over thousands of apps, indicate that Terminator is able to provide an effective, yet non-disruptive defense against permission-induced attacks. We also show that our approach, which does not require modification to the Android framework or apps' implementation logic, is highly reliable and widely applicable.
ISBN:9781450356381
1450356389
ISSN:1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/3180155.3180172