Published December 11, 2025 | Version v1
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Artifact for Bridges to Self: Silent Web-to-App Tracking on Mobile via Localhost

  • 1. COSIC, KU Leuven
  • 2. ROR icon IMDEA Networks
  • 3. ROR icon Radboud University Nijmegen
  • 4. IMDEA Networks Institute
  • 5. AppCensus Inc.

Description

This artifact contains the following:

– The data collected from our crawls in EU and US ( _frankfurt\_\*\_data.tar.gz_ and _new\_york\_\*\_data.tar.gz_ archives). The description of these crawls can be found in the README.md file in _crawl-data-processing_

– A .zip file containing the further code and data from our GitHub repository (https://github.com/localmess/localhost-abuse):

– Crawler code can be found in the _web-analysis-crawler_ folder.

– Processed output data obtained via the crawls and the analysis scripts to process crawl data are located in _crawl-data-processing_.

– Demo web pages can be found in _poc-web-pages_.

– The Frida scripts used to bypass SSL pinning and network inspection are in _frida-scripts_.

– Android proof-of-concept apps developed as part of this study are available in _android-pocs_.

We provide usage and replication instructions in several README files in respective subfolders.

 

Files

localhost-abuse-main.zip

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