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As Android operating system and applications on the device play important roles, the security requirements of Android applications increased as well. With the upgrade of Android system, Android runtime mode (ART mode) has gradually become the mainstream architecture of the Android operating system. ART introduces several improvements in Android, but it also introduces new ways to enhance malicious activities. This paper proposed a confidential finer granularity protection scheme for application programs under ART mode of ROOT Android devices. Taking Java method as the protection granularity, the protection scheme increased the accuracy of protecting targets. In addition, the protection scheme provided a more thorough protection for applications by combining dynamic loading technology and encryption technology in ART mode, and improved the security of Android applications. Experiments showed that the proposed protection scheme is effective.
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This work was partly supported by The Fundamental Research Funds for Beijing Universities of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Response by ZhangYu), and also Excellent Teachers Development Foundation of BUCEA (Response by ZhangYu), and also National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFC060090).
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Jiajia, S., Jinbao, G., Yu-an, T., Yu, Z., Xiao, Y. (2018). A Java Code Protection Scheme via Dynamic Recovering Runtime Instructions. In: Vaidya, J., Li, J. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05063-4_21
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