Application Analysis and Decision with Dynamic Analysis

Abstract

The US Army Research Laboratory currently has a mobile application analysis tool known as A2D, Application Analysis and Decision. It is a static analysis tool that takes in a mobile application and parses out a large amount of data relevant to human analysts and stores it in a database. It would then use some of these data to generate a risk score for the application. However, static analysis alone is not enough to fully analyze an application. To overcome the obstacles inherent in static analysis, A2D was extended to include dynamic analysis functionality. This will allow A2D to run an application in a controlled, virtual environment, and interact with it in ways similar to a human user in an attempt to elicit a response from the application. Once the series of interactions have concluded, A2D will gather useful data for analysis and store them in the primary A2D database for future analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA613977

Entities

People

  • Joshua S. Edwards

Organizations

  • ICF International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Application Protocols
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computer Programs
  • Consumers
  • Databases
  • Dictionaries
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Application Software
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulations
  • Text Messaging
  • Transient Response Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.