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AppShark is an open-source static taint-analysis platform developed by ByteDance designed to scan Android application packages (APKs) for potential security or privacy vulnerabilities. It performs code analysis without executing the app — inspecting APK contents, tracking data flows (taints), and detecting risky patterns such as insecure file access, unsafe API usage, resource-leak possibilities, or misconfigurations. Users can customize scanning via rule sets (written in JSON), defining which types of vulnerabilities or compliance issues to detect — making AppShark flexible and adaptable to different security policies or threat models. ...