Cross-Platform Access-Rights Analysis of Mobile Applications

Abstract

We live in the era of mobile computing. Mobile devices havemore sensors and more capabilities than desktop computers. Forany computing device that contains sensitive information andaccesses the Internet, security is a major concern for bothenterprises and end-users. Of the mobile devices commonly inuse, iOS and Android are the prevalent platforms; each platformhas a unique architecture and security policy relating to howthey handle these sensitive permissions; due to these differencesone platform is likely more secure than the other. A deep staticand dynamic analysis of the applications available for eachplatform was conducted in order to determine on whichoverprivileged applications were more prevalent.