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BuIldIng your
own SAndBox
Smartphones, in general, and Android, in particular, are increasingly
the focus of cybercriminals’ attacks. Because the number of threats
has grown in the last years, researchers have found a clear necessity
to introduce automated analysis for mobile. For this reason we have
designed a system to automatically analyze Android applications. is
approach blends dierent analysis techniques including static and
dynamic. is technique, also known as sandboxing, uses the results
of the static analysis to complete the dynamic analysis (Figure8.1).
We will make a brief introduction for those readers who are not so
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