[Soot-list] Multiple runtime exceptions when analyzing Android APKs

[dingsun]

Dear Alexandre,
Sorry for my late reply. Here is the link to donwload the apks.  Would appreciate if you could reproduce the errors and have further discussion with us. 
http://sdrv.ms/136KEww
Best regards,Ding Sun

> Subject: Re: [Soot-list] Multiple runtime exceptions when analyzing Android APKs
> From: alexandre.bartel at uni.lu
> To: xyz031702 at hotmail.com
> CC: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca; yauhen001 at e.ntu.edu.sg
> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:25:42 +0200
> 
> Hi Ding Sun,
> 
> Thank you for reporting this.
> Could you share the apks somewhere so I can reproduce the bugs?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Alexandre
> 
> On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 21:10 +0800, dingsun wrote:
> > Hi all, We are recently using soot's android package to analyze Android
> > apks.  We followed the online tutorial to generate jimple files from
> > apks. We analyzed 40 apks (randomly picked from Google Play), average
> > file size is 5 to 8 MB and the maximum is 25 MB. However we encountered
> > several problems, which may be caused by soot bugs.(1) 25% apk analysis
> > stopped due to java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, although we have allocated
> > 8GB memory for the analysis.(2) 35% apk analysis crashed due to various
> > soot internal exceptions:” java.lang.RuntimeException: Unhandled type
> > bottom_type”,“soot.AbstractSootFieldRef$FieldResolutionFailedException:
> > Class android.content.pm.ActivityInfo doesn't have field
> > parentActivityName : java.lang.String; failed to resolve in
> > superclasses and interfacesLooking in
> > android.content.pm.ActivityInfo”,“java.lang.ClassCastException:
> > soot.RefType cannot be cast to
> > soot.ArrayType”,“java.lang.ClassCastException”,“Unexpected type
> > null”,“java.lang.RuntimeException: Trying to create interface invoke
> > expression for non-interface type:
> > com.android.vending.billing.IMarketBillingService Use
> > JVirtualInvokeExpr or JSpecialInvokeExpr instead!”soot.RefType cannot
> > be cast to soot.ArrayType Our analyzing program only contains the
> > following code:                             
> > //////////////////////////////                       public String[]
> > sootArgs={"-allow-phantom-refs", "-p", "jb"		
> >             , "use-original-names:true", "-w", "-p", "cg",
> > "all-reachable:true", 			             "-p", "cg",
> > "verbose:true", "-include-all",			             
> > "-android-jars","D:\\soot_android\\Soot_android-platforms-master",
> >               "-process-dir","D:\\soot_android\\app.apk"};
> >                          G.v().reset();		
> > Options.v().set_src_prec(Options.src_prec_apk);		
> > Options.v().set_output_format(Options.output_format_J);  //output as
> > Jimple		
> > Options.v().set_output_dir("D:\\soot_android\\processedResult");	
> > soot.Main.main(sootArgs);                       
> > //////////////////////////////The soot and android package is
> > downloaded from Github (develop branch). We can share the complete
> > program and the apks. We would like to cut down the error rate, likely
> > say down to 15 to 20%. We would highly appreciate if you could give us
> > suggestions. Best regards,Ding Sun  		 	   	
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