December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
4h 56m
English
Static analysis is the technique of detecting malware applications by analyzing their source code. The source code associated with an application is obtained using reverse engineering tools. The source code contains features like API calls, permissions, hardware components, intents, intent filters and app components. The advantage of static analysis is that it has high code coverage and less analysis overhead. In this chapter, we present various existing static malware detection mechanisms.
Reverse engineering is the process of obtaining the source code of an Android application to understand its functionality. Reverse engineering is done for ...