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Welcome to the course Android reverse engineering from scratch where you will learn Android reverse
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engineering in three hours.
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So here is an overview of the course.
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We will start off with the course prerequisites where we will cover both the skills needed to be able
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to follow this course as well as the technical requirements.
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Now even though we tried to deliver a hands on course we still had to provide a short section with a
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brief introduction to Android.
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We will try to keep this as short as possible but it is good to cover the foundations to understand
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how Android works and more importantly how Android apps work.
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There are significant differences between Android apps and apps on a more traditional platform like
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Windows.
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Here we will briefly cover some of these differences the rest of the course is more hands on and the
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students are expected to follow and recreate what is being demonstrated we start off by setting up the
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lab environment.
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Here we will go through the installation of all the tools that will be used throughout the course without
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going into too much detail about their features.
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We wanted to get this out of the way in order to avoid spending time going through the installation
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processes mid exercise. Once the lab is complete.
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We will go through the process of developing a basic Android app.
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We understand that there are many students that may not have development knowledge or else they do have
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scripting or development knowledge but perhaps on other platforms and in other languages.
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The idea here is not to provide a full development course.
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However we believe that taking you through the process that a normal app developer or even a malware
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author goes through when developing their app will provide a better overall understanding of what we
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need to look for as reverse engineers after developing a basic app which will in fact be a malicious
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app.
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We will change our hat and go through the analysis of the malicious app through the eyes of a reverse
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engineer.
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Here we will use the tools that we installed during the lab setup to analyze the malicious app.
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Finally we will take the techniques that we learned during the analysis section and apply them to a
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real life ransomware case.
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Moreover we will use the analysis results to mitigate the harm caused by the ransomware.
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Here we will be creating a decryption tool that decrypt the files encrypted by the ransomware.