Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Discovering Flaws in Security-Focused Static Analysis Tools for Android
  using Systematic Mutation   Mobile application security has been one of the major areas of security
research in the last decade. Numerous application analysis tools have been
proposed in response to malicious, curious, or vulnerable apps. However,
existing tools, and specifically, static analysis tools, trade soundness of the
analysis for precision and performance, and are hence soundy. Unfortunately,
the specific unsound choices or flaws in the design of these tools are often
not known or well-documented, leading to a misplaced confidence among
researchers, developers, and users. This paper proposes the Mutation-based
soundness evaluation ($\mu$SE) framework, which systematically evaluates
Android static analysis tools to discover, document, and fix, flaws, by
leveraging the well-founded practice of mutation analysis. We implement $\mu$SE
as a semi-automated framework, and apply it to a set of prominent Android
static analysis tools that detect private data leaks in apps. As the result of
an in-depth analysis of one of the major tools, we discover 13 undocumented
flaws. More importantly, we discover that all 13 flaws propagate to tools that
inherit the flawed tool. We successfully fix one of the flaws in cooperation
with the tool developers. Our results motivate the urgent need for systematic
discovery and documentation of unsound choices in soundy tools, and demonstrate
the opportunities in leveraging mutation testing in achieving this goal.

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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex