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Research on Dynamic Safe Loading Techniques in Android Application Protection System

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Android is a widespread used embedded system. The number of Android applications has been rapidly growing. Because of Android open source policy and limited application security mechanism, Android applications are confronted with many serious security threats. By malicious reverse and illegal tampering, thousands of Android applications have been infected and millions of users have been exposed to dangers. In this paper, we proposed an improved Android applications protection system based on DEX block encryption and multi-file features checksum. Experiment results show that the proposed system is more reliable than the commonly-used Android application protection systems when facing with attack tools such as APK Tools and IDA pro.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants NSFC 61672358.

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  1. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, Guangdong Province, China

    Shubin Cai, Rongjie Huang, Ningsheng Yang, Jinwen Jiang, Zhong Ming & Zhengping Liang

  2. Engineering Research Center of Mobile Internet Application Middleware, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

    Zhiguang Shan

  3. State Information Center of China, Bejing, China

    Zhiguang Shan

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Cai, S. et al. (2018). Research on Dynamic Safe Loading Techniques in Android Application Protection System. In: Qiu, M. (eds) Smart Computing and Communication. SmartCom 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73830-7_14

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