STAAF: Scaling Android Application Analysis with a Modular Framework

There has been no shortage of Android malware analysis reports recently, but thus far that trend has not been accompanied with an equivalent scale of released public Android application tools. To address this issue, we are presenting the Scalable Tailored Application Analysis Framework (STAAF). The goal of this framework is to allow a team of analysts to efficiently analyze a large number of Android applications and to promote collaborative analysis through shared processing and results. STAAF is designed to be scalable and extensible, and can quickly be customized to meet the current analysis needs. Our hope is that by releasing the framework, we will not only provide an efficient tool for automating and scaling analysis tasks, but we hope the work will encourage the sharing of research in the field.