Protocol Reverse Engineering to Facebook Messages

Author

Insik Jung ; Hyeonwoo Kim ; Dong-Kweon Hong ; Hongtaek Ju

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Keimyung Univ., Daegu, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

539

Lastpage

542

Abstract

In this paper, we will present the results of protocol reverse engineering for Facebook protocol, which includes Facebook message format and its exchange sequences. In order to learn message exchange sequences, we will rely on passive traffic monitoring approach which is based on packet capturing and behavior analysis. And Facebook message formats are deduced from the source program code trace on a test Facebook client that was developed for generating probing messages based on Facebook open Graph API. Deduced Facebook message formats are described in the form of constraint HTTP message specification, and Facebook message exchange sequences are depicted in sequence diagrams with objects of the Facebook client and Facebook servers.

Keywords

application program interfaces; electronic data interchange; formal specification; protocols; reverse engineering; social networking (online); Facebook client; Facebook message exchange sequence; Facebook message format; Facebook open Graph API; Facebook protocol; Facebook server; application program interface; behavior analysis; constraint HTTP message specification; packet capturing; passive traffic monitoring approach; probing message; protocol reverse engineering; sequence diagram; source program code; Facebook; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Protocols; Reverse engineering; Servers; Facebook; api; protocol; sdk;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Modelling & Simulation (ISMS), 2013 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

ISSN

2166-0662

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5653-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMS.2013.30

Filename

6498329