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Hacking Android

Hacking Android

By : Mohammed A. Imran, Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

Hacking Android

4.4 (5)
By: Mohammed A. Imran, 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 (12 chapters)
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What happens when an app is run?

When the Android Operating System boots, a process called Zygote is started and it listens for new app launch requests. Whenever a user clicks on an application, Zygote is used to launch it. Zygote creates a copy of itself using a fork system call when it receives a request to launch a new app. This process of launching a new app is considered more efficient and faster. The newly launched app process loads all the code that is required for it to run. What we read earlier is that the classes.dex file contains all the byte code compatible with Dalvik Virtual Machine. In the latest version of Android devices starting from Android 5.0, the default runtime environment is ART. In this new runtime environment, the classes.dex file will be converted into something called OAT using a tool called dex2oat.

ART – the new Android Runtime

ART has been first introduced in Android 4.4 as an optional runtime environment that could be chosen by the end user from developer...

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