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Hacking Android

By : Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

By: Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Overview of this book

With the mass explosion of Android mobile phones in the world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Security of Android devices is a broad subject that should be part of our everyday lives to defend against ever-growing smartphone attacks. Everyone, starting with end users all the way up to developers and security professionals should care about android security. Hacking Android is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with Android security. You’ll begin your journey at the absolute basics, and then will slowly gear up to the concepts of Android rooting, application security assessments, malware, infecting APK files, and fuzzing. On this journey you’ll get to grips with various tools and techniques that can be used in your everyday pentests. You’ll gain the skills necessary to perform Android application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing and will create an Android pentesting lab.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hacking Android
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Android Malware

This chapter gives an introduction to the fundamental techniques typically used in creating and analyzing Android malwares. We will begin by introducing the characteristics of Android malwares, creating a simple piece of malware that gives an attacker a reverse shell on the infected phone, and then finally we will discuss some fundamental analysis techniques.

The era of viruses that can infect computers is popular. With the evolution of smartphones, it is a widely accepted fact that mobile malware that can infect smart phones is on the rise. Android, because of its open nature and sensitive API access to developers, is one big target of cybercriminals. Anyone with basic Android programming knowledge can create sophisticated Android malwares that can greatly damage end users. In the next sections of this chapter, we will see some of the popular Android malwares in the wild and also how to create such malware.

The following are the some of the major topics covered...