January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
1045 pages
22h 24m
English
book
Penetration Testing: A Survival Guide
by Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli, Mohammed A. Imran
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Static analysis using QARK:
QARK (short for Quick Android Review Kit) is another interesting tool. This is a command line tool and performs static analysis of Android apps by decompiling the APK files using various tools and then analyzing the source code for specific patterns.
QARK has been developed by LinkedIn's in house security team and can be downloaded from the following link:
https://github.com/linkedin/qarkInstructions to setup QARK have been shown in Chapter 1, Setting Up the Lab. Let's see how QARK can be used to perform static analysis of Android apps.
QARK works in the following modes:
- Interactive mode
- Seamless mode
We can launch the QARK tool in interactive mode using the following command:
python qark.py
Running the previous command ...
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