SeSoa: Security Enhancement System with Online Authentication for Android APK

[Abstract] Android OS provides such security mechanisms as application signature, privilege limit and sandbox to protect the security of operational system. However, these methods are unable to protect the applications of Android against anti⁃reverse engineering and the codes of such applications face the risk of being obtained or modified, which are always the first step for further attacks. In this paper, a security enhancement system with online authentication (SeSoa) for Android APK is proposed, in which the code of Android application package (APK) can be automatically encrypted. The encrypted code is loaded and run in the Android system after being successfully decrypted. Compared with the exiting software protecting systems, SeSoa uses online authentication mechanism to ensure the improvementof the APK security and good balance between security and usability.

[Keywords] software protection; anti⁃reverse; Android; authentication