2018/04/30 by Felix Pauck, Eric Bodden, Heike Wehrheim · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Android (operating system) #Benchmark (surveying) #Comparability #Cover (algebra) #Digital and Cyber Forensics #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #Taint checking #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3236024.3236029
openalex created_date 2018/04/13 · openalex publication_date 2018/10/26 · arxiv created 2019/07/30 · arxiv updated 2019/07/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In recent years, researchers have developed a number of tools to conduct taint analysis of Android applications. While all the respective papers aim at providing a thorough empirical evaluation, comparability is hindered by varying or unclear evaluation targets. Sometimes, the apps used for evaluation are not precisely described. In other cases, authors use an established benchmark but cover it only partially. In yet other cases, the evaluations differ in terms of the data leaks searched for, or lack a ground truth to compare against. All those limitations make it impossible to truly compare the tools based on those published evaluations.