[Soot-list] Soot not able to process the source code of android applications

[Steven Arzt]

Hi Sanjay,

 

That is correct. Soot has no components for processing Android layout files. If you want to work with Android apps in an analysis based on Soot, you can make use of the FlowDroid parser components included in the soot-infoflow-android project. The FlowDroid project, however, works on compiled APK files, not on the original source files. Generally, Soot’s bytecode / dex code front end is much more stale and up-to-date than the front end for Java source code.


What exactly are you trying to do?

 

Best regards,

  Steven

 

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Gesendet: Samstag, 13. Juni 2015 00:59
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Betreff: [Soot-list] Soot not able to process the source code of android applications

 

Hello all,

I have been trying to analyze the source code of Android applications. The soot is not able to reference and process the non-java components (which are actually the xml components) like the TextView and the layout file. I have tried using the exclude list with "R." but got no success. Here is my sample code:

 

Options.v().set_android_jars(pathToAndroidJarForSoot);

Options.v().set_soot_classpath("/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jce.jar:/home/sanjay/Android/Sdk/platforms/android-21/android.jar");

Options.v().set_src_prec(Options.src_prec_java);

Options.v().set_allow_phantom_refs(true);

List<String> excludeList = new LinkedList<String>();

excludeList.add("R.");

Options.v().set_exclude(excludeList);

Options.v().set_no_bodies_for_excluded(true);

Options.v().set_process_dir(Collections.singletonList(pathToDirectory));

Options.v().set_whole_program(true);

......

......

 

 

 

The errors look like the following

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:17,24:

soot.CompilationDeathException: there were errors during parsing and/or type checking (JastAdd frontend)

  Semantic Error: R.layout not found

at soot.JastAddInitialResolver.formAst(JastAddInitialResolver.java:63)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:17,33:

at soot.JavaClassSource.resolve(JavaClassSource.java:54)

  Semantic Error: no field named activity_main is accessible

at soot.SootResolver.bringToHierarchy(SootResolver.java:230)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:18,43:

at soot.SootResolver.bringToSignatures(SootResolver.java:255)

  Semantic Error: R.id not found

at soot.SootResolver.bringToBodies(SootResolver.java:291)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:18,48:

at soot.SootResolver.processResolveWorklist(SootResolver.java:165)

  Semantic Error: no field named tvMessage is accessible

at soot.SootResolver.resolveClass(SootResolver.java:130)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:26,35:

at soot.Scene.loadClass(Scene.java:693)

  Semantic Error: R.menu not found

at soot.Scene.loadClassAndSupport(Scene.java:678)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:26,42:

at soot.Scene.loadNecessaryClasses(Scene.java:1351)

  Semantic Error: no field named menu_main is accessible

at paprika.analyzer.SootAnalyzer.init(SootAnalyzer.java:82)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:38,19:

at paprika.Main.runAnalysis(Main.java:112)

  Semantic Error: R.id not found

at paprika.Main.main(Main.java:79)

/home/sanjay/Documents/UQAM/sourcesNapks/ForSoot/app/src/main/java/forsoot/com/forsoot/MainActivity.java:38,24:

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  Semantic Error: no field named action_settings is accessible

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)

at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)

 

-- 

Sanjay Thakur

Research Intern

UQAM

Montreal, Canada

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