Android Application Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis: Analysis environment preparation.
Hi everyone, this time I would like to share my experiences on Android application analysis and reverse engineering preparation. Like every other processes when we need to do something in the world, we have to consider and prepare basic things to have everything executed in a structured and efficient manner. Prior to our analysis for any mobile application, we have to consider a few things to prepare which is: Workstation. Tools and software. Skills require. Considering and preparing these components will significantly improve your readiness and response time when the sample is acquired and needs to be examined. WORKSTATION For a workstation, this is the specification that at least you should have: Minimum Quad core processor and support Virtualization . Currently I have 4 cores with 8 threads processor. Malware analysis and reverse engineering process is resource intensive, more is better to support virtualization and heavy processing. During my a...