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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify vulnerabilities and secure your smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280571
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Guzman Aaron Guzman
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IoT Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. IoT Threat Modeling 3. Analyzing and Exploiting Firmware 4. Exploitation of Embedded Web Applications 5. Exploiting IoT Mobile Applications 6. IoT Device Hacking 7. Radio Hacking 8. Firmware Security Best Practices 9. Mobile Security Best Practices 10. Securing Hardware 11. Advanced IoT Exploitation and Security Automation

Decompiling Android applications


With a target IoT app and APK file downloaded, the application can now be decompiled to view its contents. For Android apps, this task can be completed in a matter of minutes. Later, automation testing techniques for statically analyzing an app will be covered in more detail. Decompiling an application is one of the first steps in reverse engineering an application to manipulate its functions. Apps can also be recompiled and packaged after modification, however this is out of scope for our purposes.

Getting ready

To decompile an Android app, we will make use of Enjarify and JD-GUI. Enjarify translates Dalvik bytecode to Java bytecode which will be used to analyze it further with JD-GUI. JD-GUI is a Java decompiler used to view Java code. Both tools are included in the accompanied virtual machine:

Note

Enjarify does require Python 3 as a dependency.

  • JD-GUI is available via...
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