APK File Infection on an Android System
Bob Pan details copy of the slides for this talk are here: APK File Infection on an Android System Bob Pan Mobile Security Research Engineer, TrendMicro Inc.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Copy of the slides for this talk are here: APK File Infection on an Android System Bob Pan Mobile Security Research Engineer, TrendMicro Inc. This concept of APK file infection on Android is similar to the concept of PE file infection on Windows systems.
Vulnerability Analysis
As the performance of Android device has increased, it's become possible to implement such a concept in Android systems. We will demonstrate how to implement this concept.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
In addition, we will also give a demo to show that a PoC virus can infect normal APK files in a real Android mobile phone. Bob Pan mainly focuses on mobile platform security domain(including Android/iOS platforms).
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
He likes reverse-engineering and contributes to opensource. He is the owner of dex2jar ( which is one of most popular tools in the android security industry. Now he works as a Mobile Security Research Engineer at TrendMicro.
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