A study of dynamic analysis use cases in Android applications for third party libraries detection

The Android operative system is the most used for mobile devices, which cover a large part of daily life. Because of this, many branches of security research on Android applications have emerged, with one of them being the detection of Third party libraries (TPLs). Studying the properties of the applications code, that is performing static analysis techniques, is the go-to approach when it comes to this branch of research, resulting in dynamic analysis driven approaches being relatively understudied. The following thesis explains the state of the art for TPL detection and discusses possible types of dyanmic analysis approaches, which study the run- time behavior of the target applications, making confrontations with static analysis and showing how even very simple solutions in terms of costs and implementation provide complementary information for state of the art methodologies.