BoxDroid

BoxDroid is an tool, built on top of runtime GUI, for detecting repackaging Android app pairs.

• Datasets can be downloaded by clicking following link.

  • Dataset.zip

How to deploy and use BoxDroid

Environment requirement

The environment settings used in our evaluations are listed as follow:

• Operating System: Unubtu18

• Java SDK: 1.8.0_362

• Android SDK :

  • build-tools: 27.0.0

• Emulator:

  • Android Studion Device Emulator

  • Pixel XL API 27

Run BoxDroid

Download and unzip the boxdroid.zip

Birthmark generation

1. Create AVD via Android Studio

The AVD settings used in our evaluation are:

• Device: Pixe XL

• Android API: 8.1 API 27

• Size: 480

• Procesors: 4

• Memeory Size: 4096 MB

• Network: NAT (some app require internet access)

2. Backup fresh AVD

• Open the deploy directory of Avd (e.g., /home/username/.android/avd/original). The path of the deploy directory can be found via clicking Device Manger->...->Show on Disk of the GUI of Android Studio.

• Copy the directory of the above created AVD to a location other than the deploy directory, the name of directory should be same as the avd's original directory name(e.g., /home/username/.android/avd/Pixel_XL_API_27.avd).

3. Edit the configuration file bm_gen.properties accordingly.

• For description about the parameters, please refer to the Description page of bm_gen.properties.

4. Execute following command to generate birthmark:

java -jar boxdroid.jar -gen bm_gen.properties

Birthmark comparison

1.Edit the configuration file bm_compare.properties accordingly.

• For description about the parameters, please refer to the Description page of bm_compare.properties.

2. Execute following command to compare birthmark:

java -jar boxdroid.jar -cmp bm_compare.properties