You're reading from Mobile App Reverse Engineering Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073394

Length 166 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Android

Concepts

Reverse Engineering

Author (1):

Abhinav Mishra

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Basics of Mobile App Reverse Engineering, Common Tools and Techniques, and Setting up the Environment

2. Chapter 1: Basics of Reverse Engineering – Understanding the Structure of Mobile Apps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Mobile App Reverse Engineering Environment Using Modern Tools

4. Section 2: Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Methodology and Approach

5. Chapter 3: Reverse Engineering an Android Application

6. Chapter 4: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application

7. Chapter 5: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application (Developed Using Swift)

8. Section 3: Automating Some Parts of the Reverse Engineering Process

9. Chapter 6: Open Source and Commercial Reverse Engineering Tools

10. Chapter 7: Automating the Reverse Engineering Process

11. Chapter 8: Conclusion

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Software reverse engineering, in simple terms, is the art of taking apart an application or software to understand its internal workings. The way a piece of software/code functions depends upon several factors such as the programming language, the CPU architecture it is built for, and programming practices. The process of reverse engineering as well as analyzing the reverse engineered software, depends on the type of architecture it was developed for, the type of programming language, and so on.

For mobile application reverse engineering, the initial phase requires an understanding of an application package structure, how it is developed, the programming language, binary format, the application package type, and so on. With this knowledge, we start the process of reverse engineering; in the case of an Android app, we use JADX because we know that Java code can be extracted from dex files. However, for an iOS app, we disassemble the binary using a disassembler...