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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

Rooting Process and Custom ROM installation


Custom ROM installation is a three step process, however, if you are only interested in rooting your device and don't want to install custom ROM, you only need to follow step 1 and step 2. These are the steps involved in installing custom ROM:

  1. Installing recovery softwares like TWRP or CF.

  2. Installing the Super Su app.

  3. Flashing the custom ROM to the phone.

Installing recovery softwares

The following are two popular ways to install recovery software like TWRP or CF:

  • Using Odin

  • Using Heimdall

Before we proceed further, we need to download TWRP recovery TAR file and IMG for note 2 from the following URL and save it under Phone Rooting Directory:

Using Odin

Odin is one of the most popular recovery tools for Samsung devices. This section shows the steps to use Odin:

  1. Download the Odin 3.09 ZIP package from the following URL and extract it in the same folder where you have copied the...