Attribution Signals from Five Android Markets
Creators
- 1. Aarhus University
- 2. IMDEA Networks Institute
- 3. TU Wien
- 4. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Description
Attribution signals extracted from five major Android markets (Google Play, Baidu, APKMonk, Tencent, APKMirror). The data has been collected by a crawler, deployed at difference instances between December 2019 and November 2021.
The data set consists of 4,978,937 records and is provided as a single JSON file compressed using bzip2. An individual "market entry" (i.e., a unique set of signals associated with a single publication version of an app on a market) can have multiple records, as the data set is provided in 'long' form, with each signing certificate associated with the market entry is contained in its own record.
Each record containing the following properties:
|
Signal |
Description |
|
market_entry_id |
Unique identifier for the record |
|
pkg_name |
Package name (prioritizes package name from APK file over the web page reported package name) |
|
internal_market_id |
The internal identifier used by the market (as part of the URL) |
|
market |
The market this record was collected from |
|
timestamp |
Timestamp of the collection of the market entry |
|
file_sha256 |
The SHA256 hash of the APK file from which the signals are extracted |
|
meta_version |
The reported reported by the meta data on web page description |
|
app_name |
The name of the app extract from the meta data |
|
developer_name |
The name of the publishing developer |
|
developer_website |
The website of the publishing developer |
|
developer_email |
The email address of the publishing developer |
|
developer_address |
The physical address of the publishing developer |
|
meta_pkg_name |
The package name extracted from the app web page |
|
privacy_policy_url |
The privacy policy URL |
|
cert_sha256 |
The SHA256 hash of the certificate used to sign the APK |
|
subject_c |
The “country” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
subject_s |
The “state” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
subject_o |
The “organisation” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
subject_l |
The “locale” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
subject_ou |
The “organisation unit” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
subject_cn |
The “common name” field extracted from the subject of the signing certificate |
|
self_signed |
True if the signing certificate is self-signed, False otherwise |
|
cert_version |
The Android signing version of the certificate |
|
apk_version_code |
The version code of the APK |
|
apk_pkg_name |
The package name extracted from the APK file |
|
apk_app_name |
The app name extracted from the APK file |
|
market_id |
Identifier that combines the "pkg_name" and "internal_market_id". Deprecated field (use 'market_entry_id' instead) |
Files
Restricted
The record is publicly accessible, but files are restricted to users with access.
Additional details
Related works
- Is compiled by
- Software: https://github.com/kdhageman/android_market_crawler (URL)