April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 12m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Steps to reverse engineer Android apps
APK files can be reverse-engineered in different ways to get the original code. The following is one method that uses the dex2jar and JD-GUI tools to gain access to the application code. For our example, we will examine the com.twitter.android-1.apk file. The following are the steps to successfully reverse engineer the APK file:
- Rename the APK extension to ZIP to see the contents of the file. Rename the com.twitter.android-1.apk file to twitter.android-1.zip and extract the contents of this file using any file archiver application. The following screenshot shows the files that were extracted from the original file, twitter.android-1.zip:
Extracted files of an APK file
- The classes.dex file that we ...