Detection and Privacy Leakage Analysis of Third-Party Libraries in Android Apps

Xiantong Hao, Dandan Ma, Hongliang Liang

Abstract: Third-party libraries (TPL) make Apps’ functionality diversified but introduce severe security risks. Precisely detecting and analyzing TPLs is challenging because their code usually is not publicly available or obfuscated. Prior studies do not perform well in detecting closed-source or obfuscated TPLs and analyzing their privacy risks.