DASCA

Installation

Prerequisites

• Java 8 (Java 9 or later is currently not supported)
• Eclipse Oxygen, including the following additional packages:
  • From the Eclipse Marketplace:
    • The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
    • JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT)
    • Gradle Integration (Buildship)
  • From the Scala IDE Update Site
    • Scala IDE and Scalatest Runner (the latter is optional)
• The native libraries and the JNI packages for CVC3. On a Debian-based Linux system, you need to install the package libcvc3-5-jni. CVC3 is only required for the sub-project com.logicalhacking.dasca.dataflow and the corresponding tests.

Note, if you install the Eclipse for Java EE Developers, you should get a version that includes already PDE, JSDT, and Buildship. Thus, you only need to add the Scala IDE.

Checkout

The repository can be cloned as usual:

git clone https://git.logicalhacking.com/DASCA/DASCA.git

Note, if you authorized to access the confidential test cases of DASCA, you can obtain them by executing

git submodule update --init --recursive

Configuration (optional)

The dataflow analysis can be configured in various ways in the com.logicalhacking.dasca.dataflow/config/main.config file. Most importantly, if you experience problems or want to optimize the performance (e.g., by analyzing the programs based on a different Java version), you might need to configure the location of the Java JDK. The JDK used as part of the static analysis is configured in the file com.logicalhacking.dasca.dataflow/config/main.config, e.g.

cd DASCA/
echo "java_runtime_dir = <PATH-TO-JDK>" >> ./com.logicalhacking.dasca.dataflow/config/main.config

Don’t forget to adjust the path to the Java JDK accordingly, i.e., the <PATH-TO-JDK> should point to the directory containing the file rt.lib.

How to Compile

First check that the variable JAVA_HOME is configured correctly, to ensure that Java 8 is used, e.g.:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

The project can be compiled using gradle

./gradlew clean assemble test

Import into Eclipse

All projects can be imported into a (fresh) Eclipse workspace using File -> Import -> Gradle -> Existing Gradle Projects:

1. Select the DASCA folder as source for the import
2. Import all offered projects

Team

Main contact: Achim D. Brucker

Contributors

• Thomas Deuster
• Michael Herzberg
• Tim Herres

License

This project is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 2.0.

SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0

Master Repository

The master git repository for this project is hosted by the Software Assurance & Security Research Team at https://git.logicalhacking.com/DASCA/DASCA.

Publications

• Achim D. Brucker and Michael Herzberg. On the Static Analysis of Hybrid Mobile Apps: A Report on the State of Apache Cordova Nation. In International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9639), pages 72-88, Springer-Verlag, 2016. https://www.brucker.ch/bibliography/abstract/brucker.ea-cordova-security-2016 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30806-7_5