Secure android covert channel with robust survivability to service provider restrictions
by Avinash Srinivasan; Jie Wu; Justin Shi
International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Vol. 12, No. 1, 2017

Abstract: The overarching field of information hiding has been extensively researched. However, the potential for use of smartphones - communicating over cellular service provider networks - has yet to be fully explored. In this paper, we propose Android-Stego - a covert communication framework for Android smartphones. We have presented results analysing real-world cellular service-providers' restrictions on MMS messages and the corrective actions they take using a prototype implementation of Android-Stego. With the prototype implementation, we have also analysed the messages at both the sending and the receiving ends to determine the service providers' actions on MMS messages - such as compression and/or format conversion.

Online publication date: Mon, 19-Dec-2016

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