VB2017 paper: Android reverse engineering tools: not the usual suspects

Within a few years,

Android

malware has grown from a relatively small threat – the

first VB conference talk

on

Android

, in 2011, mentioned fewer than 100 malware families – to a huge problem involving more than

three million new malware samples

a year.

The subject has been a regular one on the VB conference programme, and this year’s programme is no exception:

Google

‘s Maddie Stone will take the audience through

reverse-engineering an

Android

anti-analysis library

, while

Sophos

researcher Rowland Yu will discuss how to perform

network analysis on

Android

devices

. There is also a reserve paper from

Check Point

researchers Yoni Moses and Yaniv Mordekhay on

combining static and dynamic analysis to deobfuscate

Android

apps

.

For those who are interested in digging a bit deeper into reverse engineering

Android

malware, there is a workshop entitled ‘


Android

malware reverse engineering for the brave

‘, which will be run by

Fortinet

‘s ‘Crypto Girl’ Axelle Apvrille, one of the world’s leading

Android

malware researchers and a regular VB conference speaker.

At VB2016, Axelle

spoke about

how an accompanying mobile app could be a useful ‘backdoor’ for researching an internet-of-things device, while last year she presented a paper on less common tools for

Android

reverse engineering. Today, we publish this paper in both

HTML

and

PDF

format. We have also uploaded the video of Axelle’s presentation to our

YouTube

channel.

Registration for

VB2018

will open soon.