Detection and Analysis Ads Through the Mini-Programs: Mini-Program, Advertising, Malicious Advertisement Detection, Ads Ecosystem Analysis, Android

Due to the widespread application and rapid delivery of advertisements for mini-programs, mini-program users are increasingly being harassed by advertisements. However, due to the existence of mini-programs dependent on the corresponding platforms, traditional advertising detection methods cannot detect the advertisements of the mini-programs. In the process of collecting and studying advertising problems, the authors have developed a framework that can run continuously almost without human intervention. They have analyzed 4853 mini-programs in total and got a general understanding of the problems of mini-programs' advertisements. There are several interesting findings, such as frequent pop-up advertisements, redirection, pornographic advertisements, etc. The authors have further detected pornographic advertisements and analyzed the links obtained in mini-programs to identify the malicious nature of the links. Broadly speaking, the framework collects the advertising problems of mini-programs and detects and analyzes some advertisements and malicious links to strengthen the supervision of the platform.