APK File Infection on an Android System

Presented at DEF CON 20 (2012), July 27, 2012, 10:30 a.m. (20 minutes).

This concept of APK file infection on Android is similar to the concept of PE file infection on Windows systems. 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. 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.

Presenters:

• Bob Pan - Mobile Security Research Engineer, TrendMicro Inc.
  Bob Pan mainly focuses on mobile platform security domain(including Android/iOS platforms). He likes reverse-engineering and contributes to opensource. He is the owner of dex2jar (http://code.google.com/p/dex2jar/) which is one of most popular tools in the android security industry. Now he works as a Mobile Security Research Engineer at TrendMicro.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-20/dc-20-speakers.html#Pan
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 20/DEF CON 20 video and slides/DEF CON 20 - Bob Pan - APK File Infection on an Android System - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V622aDrRE

Tags:

• Android

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