articleACM Transactions on Computer SystemsJun 1, 2014BRONZE OA

TaintDroid

WEWilliam EnckPGPeter GilbertSHSeungyeop HanVTVasant TendulkarBCByung-Gon Chun

North Carolina State University · Duke University · +6 more institutions

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Abstract

Today’s smartphone operating systems frequently fail to provide users with visibility into how third-party applications collect and share their private data. We address these shortcomings with TaintDroid, an efficient, system-wide dynamic taint tracking and analysis system capable of simultaneously tracking multiple sources of sensitive data. TaintDroid enables realtime analysis by leveraging Android’s virtualized execution environment. TaintDroid incurs only 32% performance overhead on a CPU-bound microbenchmark and imposes negligible overhead on interactive third-party applications. Using TaintDroid to monitor the behavior of 30 popular third-party Android applications, in our 2010 study we found 20…

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  • Computer science
  • Android (operating system)
  • Taint checking
  • Overhead (engineering)
  • Computer security
  • Operating system
  • Software
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