A new technique for intent elicitation in Android applications

Android is the most common operating system for smart phones. An Android application is composed of components. Intents are messaging objects. Components communicate using intents. This communication is between components of the same application or different applications. Many security attacks use intents. This paper introduces a new technique, IntGet, for elicitation of intents from Android applications. IntGet was implemented and tested on 359461 smali files of 40 applications. The experimental results revealed that IntGet can be used for designing efficient malware detection methods. The paper shows comparisons between results obtained by IntGet and those obtained by Androguard.