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Jan 29, 2018

Web access monitoring mechanism for Android WebView

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
  • Yuta Imamura
  • ,
  • Hiroyuki Uekawa
  • ,
  • Yasuhiro Ishihara
  • ,
  • Masaya Sato
  • ,
  • Toshihiro Yamauchi

First page
1
Last page
8
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
DOI
10.1145/3167918.3167942
Publisher
ACM

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. In addition to conventional web browsers, WebView is used to display web content on Android. WebView is a component that enables the display of web content in mobile applications, and is extensively used. As WebView displays web content without having to redirect the user to web browsers, there is the possibility that unauthorized web access may be performed secretly via Web-View, and information in Android may be stolen or tampered with. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and analyze web access via WebView, particularly because attacks exploiting WebView have been reported. However, there is no mechanism for monitoring web access viaWebView. In this work, the goals are to monitor web access via WebView and to analyze mobile applications using Web-View. To achieve these goals, we propose a web access monitoring mechanism for Android WebView. In this paper, the design and implementation of a mechanism that does not require any modifications to the Android Framework and Linux kernel are presented for the Chromium Android System WebView app. In addition, this paper presents evaluation results for the proposed mechanism.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3167918.3167942
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/conf/acsw/ImamuraUISY18
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https://dblp.uni-trier.de/conf/acsw/2018
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https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/acsw/acsw2018.html#ImamuraUISY18
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  • DOI : 10.1145/3167918.3167942
  • ISBN : 9781450354363
  • DBLP ID : conf/acsw/ImamuraUISY18
  • SCOPUS ID : 85044741409

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