Resilient User-Side Android Application Repackaging and Tampering Detection Using Cryptographically Obfuscated Logic Bombs

Application repackaging is a severe threat to Android users and the market. Not only does it infringe on intellectual property, but it is also one of the most common ways of propagating mobile malware. Existing countermeasures mostly detect repackaging based on app similarity measurement, which tends to be imprecise when obfuscations are applied to repackaged apps. Moreover, they rely on a central...