TY - GEN
T1 - Web access monitoring mechanism for Android WebView
AU - Imamura, Yuta
AU - Uekawa, Hiroyuki
AU - Ishihara, Yasuhiro
AU - Sato, Masaya
AU - Yamauchi, Toshihiro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/1/29
Y1 - 2018/1/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Android
KW - Web access monitoring
KW - WebView
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U2 - 10.1145/3167918.3167942
DO - 10.1145/3167918.3167942
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044741409
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, ACSW 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2018 Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference, ACSW 2018
Y2 - 29 January 2018 through 2 February 2018
ER -