Inter-App Communication

[ershweta]

Hi Steven,

I developed 8 apps, in which, each of the 7 apps collude with the eighth app called collector and privacy lekage occur. Collector app will write sensitive info at external storage.
I have added 8 apps in Inter-App Communication and updated readme.md accordingly.

[ershweta]

Hi Steven,

Some information about the contributed apps.
You can put these apps under new category: "Colluding Apps"
The following apps :

1. location
2. location_broadcast
3. location_service
   Have only LOCATION permission, and hence only can access location information.
   Similarly
4. DeviceId_bradcast
5. DeviceId_contentProvider1
6. DeviceId_orderedIntent
7. DeviceId_service
   have only READ_PHONE_STATE permission, and hence only can read device ID or related information.

But all the above apps are sending this sensitive information to the collector app. This app has WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission and can write the data on external storage.

So individual apps are not harmful but their combination is creating privacy leakage paths. Privilege Escalation is occuring. Hence these can be put in the category "Colluding Apps".

NOTE: One more modification in acknowledgement, can you mention the funding body i.e.
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (INDIA) under DeITy Project funded from Government of India.

Thanks
Shweta Bhandari
PhD Scholar
MNIT Jaipur
India

[StevenArzt]

I merged your test cases into DroidBench and updated the affiliation in the acknowledgements section of the README file accordingly. Thanks for your contribution!

[ershweta]

Thanks Steven.