How to test your android application’s vulnerability to reverse engineering

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Introduction

The cyber security attacks have increased with targeted attacks against android applications. Reverse engineering is a common tactic used by hackers to deconstruct and identify ways in which one can exploit a system. This is done by breaking the code apart, analyzing it, and possibly conducting a repackaging attack by modifying the apk file, including malicious content, signing, and publishing to the public. Worst of all, users often cannot identify the attack as the application’s apk seem identical.

Key takeaways

1. Understand what reverse engineering is
2. Identify common tools that the developers can use to test
3. Understand the repackaging attack methodology
4. Ways to prevent repackaging attacks.

Article quality This article will focus on equipping developers to create robust solutions that are not easily exploitable using the repackaging attack. Additionally, it can be used by cyber security researchers in their ethical hacking activities to test android applications against these attacks.

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