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Denial-of-App Attack: Inhibiting the Installation of Android Apps on Stock Phones

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Arzt, Steven Bodden, Eric Huber, Stephan Rasthofer, Siegfried
Abstract	We describe a novel class of attacks called denial-of-app that allows adversaries to inhibit the future installation of attacker-selected applications on mobile phones. Adversaries can use such attacks to entrap users into installing attacker-preferred applications, for instance to generate additional revenue from advertisements on a competitive app market or to increase the rate of malware installation. Another possibility is to block anti-virus applications or security workarounds to complicate malware detection and removal. We demonstrate such an attack that works on arbitrary unmodified stock Android phones. It is even possible to block many applications from a list predefined by the attacker instead of just a single app. Even more, we propose an attack for banning applications from Google Play Store regardless of the user's phone by exploiting similar vulnerabilities in the market's app vetting process. Unblocking an application blocked by our attack requires either root privileges or a complete device reset. The Android security team has confirmed and fixed the vulnerability in Android 4.4.3 (bug 13416059) and has given consent to this publication within a responsible-disclosure process. To the best of our knowledge, the attack applies to all versions prior to Android 4.4.3.
Starting Page	21
Ending Page	26
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450331555
DOI	10.1145/2666620.2666621
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-11-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Malware Vulnerability Denial of service Denial-of-app Exploit Android
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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