New Free Tools Simplify Analysis Of Android Malware (Dark Reading)

Dark Reading looks at two Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects that target Android malware analysis: APKInspector and DroidBox. "DroidBox is a sandbox of sorts that lets a researcher or analyst safely run and observe a malicious app. 'It lets you look and see if the app is doing something [malicious] ... and how it's doing it,' [GSoC mentor Ryan] Smith says. 'Once you have a profile of it, and you want to dig into the how and where in the code it's doing something, then you use APKInspector to review the code.' [...] Both tools are aimed at researchers who perform malware reverse-engineering as well as security analysts, he says. And that's a first step toward better securing the Android platform, according to Smith."

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