📝 Original Info
- Title: A Novel Attack against Android Phones
- ArXiv ID: 1106.4184
- Date: 2011-06-22
- Authors: Michael Backes and Sebastian Gerling and Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky
📝 Abstract
In the first quarter of 2011, Android has become the top-selling operating system for smartphones. In this paper, we present a novel, highly critical attack that allows unprompted installation of arbitrary applications from the Android Market. Our attack is based on a single malicious application, which, in contrast to previously known attacks, does not require the user to grant it any permissions.
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arXiv:1106.4184v1 [cs.CR] 21 Jun 2011
A Novel Attack against Android Phones
Michael Backes∗†, Sebastian Gerling∗, Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky∗
∗Saarland University, Germany
† MPI-SWS
Abstract
In the first quarter of 2011, Android has become the top-selling op-
erating system for smartphones. In this paper, we present a novel,
highly critical attack that allows unprompted installation of arbitrary
applications from the Android Market. Our attack is based on a single
malicious application, which, in contrast to previously known attacks,
does not require the user to grant it any permissions.
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Responsible Disclosure
We reported this vulnerability to Google on June 20, 2011. In order to give
them time to fix the issue, we removed the main content of this paper and
generalized title and abstract. This document merely serves as a timestamp
of discovery.
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Hash
The SHA-512 hash of the full report as sent to Google is given below:
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86940fe2d6280774fd98989cce8b1628d5d9428d0691ee4ffcc2c07da82
31ca79af5d
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