Ios, Your OS, Everybody's OS: Vetting and Analyzing Network Services of Ios Applications
iOS, Your OS, Everybody’s OS: Vetting and Analyzing Network Services of iOS Applications Zhushou Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and PWNZEN InfoTech Co., LTD; Ke Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Minhui Xue, The University of Adelaide; Yuan Tian, University of Virginia; Sen Chen, Nanyang Technological University; Muhammad Ikram, Macquarie University; Tielei Wang, PWNZEN InfoTech Co., LTD; Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/tang This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium. August 12–14, 2020 978-1-939133-17-5 Open access to the Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium is sponsored by USENIX. iOS, Your OS, Everybody’s OS: Vetting and Analyzing Network Services of iOS Applications Zhushou Tang1,6 Ke Tang1 Minhui Xue2 Yuan Tian3 Sen Chen4 Muhammad Ikram5 Tielei Wang6 Haojin Zhu1 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2The University of Adelaide 3University of Virginia 4Nanyang Technological University 5Macquarie University 6PWNZEN InfoTech Co., LTD Abstract Recent research evaluating the security of open port us- Smartphone applications that listen for network connections age in Android apps has demonstrated new attack avenues introduce significant security and privacy threats for users. that can exploit the vulnerability of network services and In this paper, we focus on vetting and analyzing the secu- access unauthorized sensitive data previously unthought rity of iOS apps’ network services. To this end, we develop of [22, 32, 55, 80]. Some works have also proposed vetting an efficient and scalable iOS app collection tool to down- methodologies to handle dynamic code loading [69], complex load 168,951 iOS apps in the wild.
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