Dypermin: Dynamic permission mining framework for android platform

This paper introduces Dypermin; a transparent framework for compiling the Android permission map without requiring any modification to the underlying operating system. To achieve that, Dypermin capitalizes on intrinsic properties of the Android framework that is security exceptions during runtime and the availability of any protected API method through the Android framework, as well as on the advantages of Java reflection mechanism. Dypermin, in contrast to other related methods, validates itself as it relies on runtime information, meaning that it does not generate false positive map entries. Dypermin has been evaluated on different Android versions. The results have been compared with the respective results of other proposed methods in order to demonstrate Dypermin's efficacy for compiling the Android permission map for any given version.