Android Malware and Analysis

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Although anyone can learn to reverse engineering malware, a key dif-

ferentiator in skill levels is often the ability to tackle the problem in a

fast and ecient manner. All reversers could systematically reverse an

application line by line, though this is not a scalable solution and leads

to massive amounts of time wasted. e essential toolkit for reversing

with speed will consist of at least baksmali, AXMLReader, and IDA

Pro 6.5. Starting with an APK le, we are going to emulate what we

might do when attacking any other binary: prepare the les for analy-

sis and look for entry points or other points of interest.

bebop:spamsoldier tstrazzere$ unzip -e com.example.

smsmessaging.apk -d contents

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