Introduction to Dynamic Dalvik Instrumentation (on Android)

Presented at Summercon 2013, June 7, 2013, 3 p.m. (50 minutes).

As application security becomes more important on Android we need better tools to analyze and understand applications on the Android platform. Android applications are written in Java and a run in the Dalvik VM. Until now most analysis is done via disassembling and monitored execution in an emulator. This talk presents a new technique to instrument Android applications executed in the DVM. The talk will introduce the basics of this technique and show you what can be achieved using it.


Presenters:

  • Collin Mulliner
    Collin Mulliner is a researcher in the Systems Security Lab at Northeastern University. Collin's main interest is the security and privacy of mobile and embedded devices with an emphasis on mobile and smart phones. Since 1997 Collin has developed software and did security work for Palm OS, J2ME, Linux, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, Android, and the iPhone. In 2006 he p0wnd Windows Mobile using MMS and broke iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile with SMS in 2009. Collin's specifically interested in the areas of vulnerability analysis and offensive security.

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