[Soot-list] Running soot on Android

[Alexandre Bartel]

Hello,

This has been successfully tried a few years ago [1].
However, as Steven mentioned, Android devices have constraints
(available heap for a process for instance) which make all kinds of
analysis almost impossible in practice.

I can successfully convert Soot's Jar (commit
759f70305eb8a36e829a3aecb3a957cff8de5442) into Dalvik Dex:
$ dx --version
dx version 1.7
$ dx -JXmx6g --num-threads=6 --dex --output=c.dex sootclasses-trunk.jar 
$ ls
c.dex sootclasses-trunk.jar  soot-trunk.jar

However, it does not work when converting soot-trunk.jar and I get the
following error message:
"trouble writing output: Too many methods: 70738; max is 65536. By
package: "
What you could try to reduce the number of methods is to remove packages
you do not use from the jar.



Best Regards,
Alexandre

[1] Bartel, A., Allix, K., Monperrus, M., Klein, J., & Le Traon, Y.
(2012). In-Vivo Bytecode Instrumentation for Improving Privacy on
Android Smartphones in Uncertain Environments. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1208.4536.

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 10:24 +0100, Steven Arzt wrote:
> Hi Benedikt,
> 
>  
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, no one has tried this so far. Since Android is
> different from Java in some aspects, I assume this not to be an easy task.
> That said, if you want to invest time and effort into it, I would be
> interested in hearing about your results.
> 
>  
> 
> In general, it also depends on what you are trying to achieve with Soot on a
> resource-constrained phone.  Keep in mind that you are usually quite
> restricted on memory on a phone.
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>   Steven
> 
>  
> 
> Von: soot-list-bounces at sable.mcgill.ca
> [mailto:soot-list-bounces at sable.mcgill.ca] Im Auftrag von Benedikt Lesch
> Gesendet: Montag, 17. Februar 2014 19:26
> An: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
> Betreff: [Soot-list] Running soot on Android
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> ís it possible to run soot on android?
> 
> I mean directly on the android device not analyzing an apk from another
> computer.
> 
> I tried this but i always get an dalvik error 1 during the compile process
> of the apk containing the soot library.
> 
>  
> 
> Did someone manage to do this?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Benedikt
> 
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