Monthly Archives: October 2010
Mobile Platform Trustworthiness
How trustworthy are mobile platforms and devices? For the maintainers of corporate networks and those charged with protecting sensitive data on those networks this is a very serious question. Corporate users are increasingly utilizing smart phones, tablets and other devices, which facilitate a more mobile and connected workforce. Often times, these devices are personal property [...]
Decompiling Android Apps: undx, dex2jar, and smali
If you have ever needed to know what a Java application is really doing, you have probably played around with a Java decompiler at some point. JAD will always have a special place in my heart for that, but I find myself giving JD-GUI the late night phone call now when I just need a [...]
Android App Decompilation Bake-Off
In our next blog post, we talk about the tools we’re using for decompiling Android applications during assessments. This is just a quick visual break down of how they each handle some code. Let’s take a look at the Open Source WordPress application for Android. Here is the actual source code for the signup class (click [...]
