In this recipe, we will create a persistent backdoor for Android devices. Since our objective is to create a controlled test environment, I suggest using a virtual machine running Android OS; this way we can safely test exploits without worries and, when we have finished, we can simply revert to the virtual machine and start over.
Creating an Android backdoor
Getting ready
I will be using Android-x86 throughout this recipe; to follow along, download the Android-x86-5.1-rc1 ISO from the http://www.android-x86.org/ site, as shown, and create a new virtual machine:
