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MAppPrint: Robust and Real-time Mobile App Fingerprinting via Traffic Behavior Correlation Graphs
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arXiv:2610.22148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile apps have become ubiquitous in daily life. Despite communication encryption, app fingerprinting (AF) attacks can still enable adversaries to infer the apps in use by analyzing patterns of encrypted network traffic. However, existing AF attacks suffer from three critical limitations that hinder their practical effectiveness: (i) the inability to capture app-specific traffic dependencies, rendering traffic fingerprints fragile under dynamic networking conditions; (ii) the neglect of latency and throughput considerations, resulting in inefficient real-time user tracking; and (iii) the incapacity to handle mixed traffic generated by multi-app concurrency. In this paper, we propose MAppPrint, a robust and real-time app fingerprinting framework. MAppPrint introduces a behavior-level traffic fingerprint, i.e., Traffic Behavior Correlation Graph (TBCG), which models app traffic by capturing unit traffic behaviors and their correlations, thereby providing reliable app fingerprints. To enable real-time fingerprinting, MAppPrint incorporates a fingerprint compression algorithm that transforms each TBCG into a compact graph by selectively aggregating redundant information. Furthermore, MAppPrint employs an unsupervised decomposition strategy to disentangle mixed traffic generated by multi-app concurrency, enabling unified identification of both single-app and multi-app traffic. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that MAppPrint achieves 4.9~13.9% improvement in AF precision and 3~6 times improvement in timeliness over state-of-the-art methods. Meanwhile, MAppPrint is robust in dynamic networking conditions, while achieving a throughput of 10.5 GB/s and a prediction latency of 0.68 seconds.
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