Today’s smartphone application markets host an ever increasing
number of applications. The sheer number of applications
makes their review a daunting task. We propose
AppsPlayground for Android, a framework that automates
the analysis smartphone applications. AppsPlayground integrates
multiple components comprising different detection
and automatic exploration techniques for this purpose. We
evaluated the system using multiple large scale and small
scale experiments involving real benign and malicious applications.
Our evaluation shows that AppsPlayground is
quite effective at automatically detecting privacy leaks and
malicious functionality in applications.