REPOSITORY CONTENT

This repository contains data and source code about the paper:

"What the App is That? Deception and Countermeasures in the Android User Interface", presented at 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

This repository contains three main folders:

###paper The pdf file of the paper.

###presentation The slides and the videos presented at IEEE SP 2015.

###attacks Source code and videos showing some of the attacks described in the paper.

###android_modifications The source code of the Android modifications, enabling the proposed on-device, defense.

HOW TO COMPILE AND USE THE MODIFIED ANDROID

Download the Android official source code

Download the Android source code (tag: android-4.4_r1.2) as explained here.

Use:

repo  init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-4.4_r1.2

instead of:

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest

to download the correct tag

Apply the patches

Assume that <git> is the folder where this file (README.md) is and <source> is the folder where Android has been downloaded.

Run:

cd <git>/android_modifications
./apply_patches.sh <source>

Compile the code

cd <source>
source build/envsetup.sh
lunch 2
make

Refer to the official documentation for more information.

Run the emulator with the correct configuration

The patches have been tested on a device mimicking the appearance of a Nexus 4.

Use the following instructions to run the emulator in the correct configuration.

###Create a correct avd Open Android AVD Manager

cd <source>/sdk
android avd

and use it to create a new Nexus 4 avd (named <avd_name>).

###Link the avd to the built image Assuming that <avd_name> has been created in <avd_folder>, run the following commands:

AVD=<avd_folder>
cd <source>
CWD=$(pwd)
ln -s "$CWD"/out/target/product/generic_x86/cache.img "$AVD"/cache.img
ln -s "$CWD"/out/target/product/generic_x86/userdata.img "$AVD"/userdata.img
ln -s "$CWD"/out/target/product/generic_x86/userdata-qemu.img "$AVD"/userdata-qemu.img
ln -s "$CWD"/prebuilts/qemu-kernel/x86/kernel-qemu "$AVD"/kernel-qemu
ln -s "$CWD"/out/target/product/generic_x86/ramdisk.img "$AVD"/ramdisk.img
ln -s "$CWD"/out/target/product/generic_x86/system.img "$AVD"/system.img

###Run the emulator