This report describes recent enhancements to Droid Intent Data Flow
Analysis for Information Leakage (DidFail), the CERT static taint
analyzer for sets of Android apps. The enhancements are new analytical
functionality for content providers, file accesses, and dynamic
broadcast receivers. Previously, DidFail did not analyze taint flows
involving ContentProvider components; however, now it analyzes taint
flows involving all four types of Android components. The latest version
of DidFail tracks taint flow across file access calls more precisely
than it did in prior versions of the software. DidFail was also modified
to handle dynamically declared BroadcastReceiver components in a fully
automated way, by integrating it with a recent version of FlowDroid and
working to fix remaining un-analyzed taint flows. Finally, a new command
line argument optionally disables static field analysis in order to
reduce DidFail's memory usage and analysis time. These new features make DidFail's taint tracking more precise (for
files) and more comprehensive for dynamically registered BroadcastReceiver and ContentProvider components. We implemented the new
features and tested them on example apps that we developed and on
real-world apps from different categories in the Google Play app store.
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