[Soot-list] Instrument for intercepting all network I/Os

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi Haipeng.

It really depends on exactly what you want to analyze but of course there are network sniffers like wireshark that might be simpler to use in such a scenario.

Cheers,
Eric


> On 10.02.2015, at 22:20, Haipeng Cai <hcai at nd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> To help identify inter-process dependencies in distributed programs, I am attempting a Jimple-level instrumentation that inserts probes after all function calls related to all network I/Os. In the simplest case, I could just identify all calls of socket.getInput/OutputStream as such instrumentation points, yet that would not give me a complete set of such points.
> 
> Is there a better approach to completely (for a 100% recall) instrumenting such interceptions through static analysis?  Or, as a compromise, is there some alternative (even dynamic-analysis) approaches to capture all network I/O related function calls?
> 
> I am also wondering if there exists any relevant utilities in the latest version of Soot or its derivatives (FlowDroid, heros, etc.) that could help with this task.
> 
> Any thoughts and clues are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> Haipeng Cai
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