Mining Android Apps for Anomalies
Konstantin Kuznetsov*; Alessandra Gorla†; Ilaria Tavecchia‡; Florian Groß*; Andreas Zeller* * Software Engineering Chair, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany† IMDEA Software Institute, Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, Spain‡ SWIFT, La Hulpe, Bruxelles, Belgium
Abstract
How do we know a program does what it claims to do? Our CHABADA prototype can cluster Android™ apps by their description topics and identify outliers in each cluster with respect to their API usage. A “weather” app that sends messages thus becomes an anomaly; likewise, a “messaging” app would typically not be expected to access the current location and would also be identified. In this paper we present a new approach for anomaly ...
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