Android Security

Appendix C: Cracking the SecureApp.Apk Application

In this appendix, we detail how a malicious user can reverse engineer and modify the behavior of a particular application. In Chapter 7, we showed this using the SecureApp.apk application as one of many ways in which a malicious user can achieve this. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate a few ways in which a malicious user can modify an application’s behavior to add or remove functionality.

Due to the hands-on nature of this exercise, this appendix is available on the book’s website—www.androidinsecury.com—in the Chapters section. All files related to this exercise are available in the Resource section of the website. You will need the following credentials to access the files under the Resource ...