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4_class_loader/1_intro.typ

@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ We show how these attacks can confuse the tools of the reverser when he performs
 The chapter is structured as follows. 
 @sec:cl-loading investigates the internal mechanisms of class loading and presents how a reverser can be confused by these mechanisms. 
 Then, in @sec:cl-obfuscation, we design obfuscation techniques and show their effect on static analysis tools. 
-Next, @sec:cl-wild evaluates if these obfuscation techniques are used in the wild by scanning #nbapk APKs.
+Next, @sec:cl-wild evaluates whether these obfuscation techniques are used in the wild by scanning #nbapk APKs.
 @sec:cl-conclusion extends on the possible countermeasures against those shadow attacks, how they interact with other obfuscation techniques, as well as the limitations of this work and avenues left to explore.
 Finally, @sec:cl-conclusion concludes the chapter.

4_class_loader/2_classloading.typ

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ With the increasing complexity of Android applications, the need arose to load m
 To solve this problem, Android started storing classes in multiple files named `classesX.dex` as illustrated by the @lst:cl-dexname that generates the filenames read by class loaders. 
 Android starts loading the file `GetMultiDexClassesDexName(0)` (`classes.dex`), then `GetMultiDexClassesDexName(1)` (`classes2.dex`), and continues until finding a value `n` for which `GetMultiDexClassesDexName(n)` does not exist. 
 Even if Android emits a warning message when it finds more than 100 #dexfiles, it will still load any number of #dexfiles that way.
-This change had the unintended consequence of permitting two classes with the same name but different implementations to be stored in the same `.apk` file using two #dexfiles (#eg the class `Foo` can be defined both in `classes.dex` and `classes2.dex`).
+This change has the unintended consequence of permitting two classes with the same name but different implementations to be stored in the same `.apk` file using two #dexfiles (#eg the class `Foo` can be defined both in `classes.dex` and `classes2.dex`).
 
 Android explicitly performs checks that prevent several classes from using the same name inside a #dexfile. 
 However, this check does not apply to multiple #dexfiles in the same `.apk` file, and a `.dex` can contain a class with a name already used by another class in another #dexfile of the application. 

4_class_loader/3_obfuscation.typ

@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ Such shadow attacks are more difficult to detect by a reverse engineer, who may
 
 === Impact on Static Analysis Tools <sec:cl-evaltools>
 
-#figure(
+#figure({
+  set text(size: 10pt)
   ```java
   public class Main {
     public static void main(Activity ac) {
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ Such shadow attacks are more difficult to detect by a reverse engineer, who may
   public class Obfuscation {
   	public static String hide_flow(String personal_data) { ... } 
   }
-  ```,
+  ```},
   caption: [Main body of test apps]
 )<lst:cl-testapp>
 
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ We used 4 versions of this application:
   We used the #SDK class `Pair` as the class to shadow.
   We put data in a new `Pair` instance and reread the data from the `Pair`. 
   The colliding `Pair` class we created discards the data at the initialisation and stores `null` instead of the argument values.
-  This decoy class break the flow of information: Flowdroid will detect the information flow if it uses the actual #SDK implementation of `Pair` to compute the #DFG, but not if it uses the decoy.
+  This decoy class breaks the flow of information: Flowdroid will detect the information flow if it uses the actual #SDK implementation of `Pair` to compute the #DFG, but not if it uses the decoy.
 + The last version tests for Hidden #API shadowing. 
   Like for the third one, we similarly store data in `com.android.okhttp.Request` and then retrieve it.
   Again, the shadowing implementation discards the data.

4_class_loader/4_in_the_wild.typ

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 In this section, we evaluate in the wild if applications that can be found in the Play Store or other markets use one of the shadow techniques. 
 Our goal is to explore the usage of shadow techniques in real applications. 
 Because we modelled the behaviour of a recent version of Android (#SDK 34), we decided not to use our dataset from @sec:rasta.
-The applications in the RASTA dataset span over more than 10 years, and we cannot guarantee that sandow attacks behaved the same during those 10 years.
+The applications in the RASTA dataset span over more than 10 years, and we cannot guarantee that shadow attacks behaved the same during those 10 years.
 At the very least, self-shadowing would not be possible before the introduction of multi-dex in 2014 -- about a fourth of the applications in the RASTA dataset.
 Instead, we sampled another dataset of recent applications. 
 This way, we can also include malicious applications (in case such techniques would be used to hide malicious code), so we selected #num(50000) applications randomly from AndroZoo~@allixAndroZooCollectingMillions2016 that appeared in 2023. 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ We report in the upper part of @tab:cl-shadow the statistics about the whole dat
 We observe that, on average, a few classes are shadowed by another class. 
 Note that the median value is 0, meaning that few apps shadow a lot of classes, but the majority of apps do not shadow anything. 
 The number of applications shadowing a hidden #API is low, which is an expected result as these classes should not be known by the developer. 
-We observe a consequent number of applications, 23.52%, of applications that perform #SDK shadowing.
+We observe a consequent number of applications, 23.52%, that perform #SDK shadowing.
 It can be explained by the fact that some classes that newly appear are embedded in the #APK for end users that have old versions of Android: it is suggested by the average value of Min #SDK which is 21.7 for the whole dataset: on average, an application can be run inside a smartphone with #API 21, which would require to embed all new classes from 22 to 34. 
 This hypothesis about missing classes is further investigated later in this section.  
 
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ All these hidden shadow classes are libraries included by the developers who pro
     // ...
   }
   ```,
-  caption: [Implementation of Reflection found un `classes11.dex` (shadows @lst:cl-refl1)],
+  caption: [Implementation of Reflection found in `classes11.dex` (shadows @lst:cl-refl1)],
 ) <lst:cl-refl2>
 
 #figure(

4_class_loader/5_discussion.typ

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 === Countermeasures <sec:cl-countermeasures>
 
 Countermeasures against shadow attacks depend on each tool and its objectives.
-The first important recommendation is to implement the class selection algorithm according to the algorithm described in Listing @lst:cl-loading-alg.
+The first important recommendation is to implement the class selection algorithm according to the algorithm described in @lst:cl-loading-alg.
-It should solve any case of self-shadowing, except for tools like Apktool, which do not have to select a class for computing the result, but show the whole application's content.
+It should solve any case of self-shadowing, except for tools like Apktool, that do not have to select a class for computing the result, but show the whole application's content.
 For those tools, a clear warning should be added, pointing out that multiple implementations have been found and displaying the one that will be used at runtime.
 
 Countermeasures against #SDK shadow and Hidden shadow attacks are more complex to handle: they require the list of platform classes on the target smartphone and, in some cases, their implementation.
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ In addition, platform classes are stored differently in older versions of Androi
 For this reason, we did not compare the classes found in applications to their versions older than #SDK 32 to avoid producing unreliable statistics for those versions.
 
 
-=== Futur Works <sec:cl-futur>
+=== Future Works <sec:cl-future>
 
 As we just said, our Smali-based comparison of class implementation is quite naive and could use more work.
 It could be insightful to be able to detect exactly when two classes are from the same source file, or which version of a library a class belong to.