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Android Malware and Analysis
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Android Malware and Analysis

by Ken Dunham, Shane Hartman, Manu Quintans, Jose Andre Morales, Tim Strazzere
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
242 pages
5h 24m
English
Auerbach Publications
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AndroId mAlwAre trendS
And reverSIng tActIcS
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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ISBN: 9781482252200