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The Betrayal at Cloud City: An Empirical Analysis of Cloud-Based Mobile Backends

Omar Alrawi, Chaoshun Zuo, Ruian Duan, Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Zhiqiang Lin and Brendan Saltaformaggio

SkyWalker extracts backend URLs from Android apps, fingerprints operating-system, service, application, and transport layers, assigns ownership, and verifies known and web-application flaws. On the top 5,000 free Google Play apps, it found 983 N-day and 655 zero-day instances and maps them to upgrade, patch, block, report, or migrate actions.

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Omar Alrawi, Chaoshun Zuo, Ruian Duan, Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Zhiqiang Lin and Brendan Saltaformaggio

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• Added to the 2019 archive after the original list was published

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Tags

• measurement-study
• large-scale-scan
• android
• cloud
• static-analysis
• dynamic-analysis
• scanner
• sqli
• xss
• xxe
• owasp-a03-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Omar Alrawi, Chaoshun Zuo, Ruian Duan, Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Zhiqiang Lin and Brendan Saltaformaggio, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host.