TaintMan: an ART-Compatible Dynamic Taint Analysis Framework on Unmodified and Non-Rooted Android Devices

Dynamic taint analysis (DTA), as a mainstream information flow tracking technique, has been widely used in mobile security. On the Android platform, the existing DTA approaches are typically implemented by instrumenting the Dalvik virtual machine (DVM) interpreter or the Android emulator with taint enforcement code. The most prominent problem of the interpreter-based approaches is that they cannot...