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Practical Security Automation and Testing
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Practical Security Automation and Testing

by Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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General process of APK security analysis

The security analysis of an Android application normally requires a certain reverse engineering process. The APK is a compressed file. The first step would be to get the APK uncompressed and reverse it into DEX bytecode or Smali resource files. These can be seen as Android intermediate resource files. Then, the DEX can further be reversed into Java class in order to get the Java source code. The following diagram shows the process and related tools we will demonstrate in the coming section:

Reverse engineering of an APK

This is a list of the tools for the reverse engineering of APK and security analysis: ...

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