Learn Android Hacking! - University Nevada, Las Vegas (2024)

During DEF CON and Black Hat, Google invited me to give a talk about Android hacking to students as part of init.g at the University Nevada, Las Vegas. In this talk I share my "trick" how to get into Android hacking and reverse engineering, which can also be adapted to any other topic.
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[@Elias07070]

Legend W with the classic intro

[@Kynatosh]

It's the one I remember, and the green rabbit before it. Did it change recently, or why are you saying that?

[@DeepakGupta-cy1kz]

Thanks Man. You always give us something cool.

[@Tenelia]

Feedback: in future, to avoid the room echo/reverb issue, try to record directly from the mic or Line feed.

[@kuldeepsingh2983]

Trying to make it simple to understand while staying technically correct (rare these days). Loved it.

[@semosemo3827]

The problem is the Google program will end soon this year

[@LiveOverflow]

Not the Mobile VRP ;)

[@Tenelia]

considering the google graveyard, i'm not surprised. I think more countries in asia will soon be moving onto their own android-compatible OS, which complicates matters as they certainly don't have a bountry program.

[@ClemensGooooo]

Very very good explained. Thanks, understood a lot.

[@fahadshah2996]

anyone knows about patch xapk or how to bypass sslpinning and view traffic for xapks android apps???

[@rogo7330]

Looks like some people not know what "hacking" is. You can't do anything to the system without research, and to research you should at least know "how" and "where" to poke the system. You can of course just run someone-else's code and be a script-kiddie, but to defend against a script-kiddie often enough just to change a listening port on the service.

[@rogo7330]

Is there any alternative to Android Studio? I just not sure that I want to use IDE that have minimum requirements 8GiB of ram. I mean, I know how to edit text files and put them into ZIP archive, I don't need an IDE for that.

[@-Engineering01-]

Reverse engineering is damn hard because nearly all of the tools required for RE are dogshit garbage. We have just ONE option, IDA pro.

[@VictorKarr-zw3fy]

This is so cool man..

[@CyberxploitHausa]

Hearing your name for the first time!

[@UNcommonSenseAUS]

Good for you bratva

[@emmynirion]

great one

[@SachinKumar-lm6gp]

but if we use proguard rule than it's really defecult to reverse engineer the app. tell me some solutions for that and also i want to read the build.gradle file please help me.

[@kaderdz4564]

I happy to see you again, it been while not posting on your channel

[@lukaspc2892]

So can the decompiled code of jadx be used to compile your own app again from what it got? Or is there something missing or too much information that Gradle wouldn't know what to do with?

[@RX_100.0]

Hi Fab

[@Ok_Mountain_8698]

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

[@tg7943]

Push!

[@bobo-px5gy]

Great content as usual, thank you so much.

[@user-bt9pe9dt3u]

Nice

[@cipherlofi6453]

the first like and comment! 😆 is me

[@viral_codes]

2nd me

[@viral_codes]

2nd me

[@cipherlofi6453]

@@viral_codes congrats man! we are the firsts 😄

[@muhammadadel9537]

I thought hextree was free ::((

[@LiveOverflow]

no, why did you think that? But the android courses are free ;)

[@muhammadadel9537]

@@LiveOverflow and actually the youtube roadmap is very good.

[@lfcbpro]

I must have missed something, it says "Learn Android Hacking!", but all you said was to learn Android Development and reverse engineering. You could have said that in 1 min and saved the other 22 mins of video. There is no 'trick', it is just educate yourself in all things Android.

[@LiveOverflow]

you missed the whole talk I guess

[@ramymimouni6639]

no shit, this apply on every "hacking jobs", understand what you are hacking first don't go blind, there's no "magic trick" to make a hacker it's all bout the mentality.

[@kezzyhko]

There is no 'trick' to hack anything. With that logic you can say that any video on youtube could be shortened to 1 min video. He gives good examples of where to start and which things are important to look at, basically making it a lot less overwhelming for beginners.

My god, you couldn't be more wrong. The presentation gave us softwares to start, screenshots, methodologies and courses to go deeper. For those who want magic, it's not really a good video. But for all of us who seeks for where to start and know that hacking is a long journey of effort and hard work, go on. Great video. Thank you so much!

[@almatsumalmaadi8103]

How will you hack a system if you don't know how it's developed? So yeah it's a must to learn development, especially you as a hacker mindset will catch poorly developed codes or features more easily than normal developers.

[@ROBOTRIX_eu]

[@mr.firdoesh1648]

what was it? about development

[@PenseeVertefeuille]

you just missed the whole point of the talk I guess

[@rodneynsubuga6275]

True; people think hacking is magic like the tools those other types of youtubers show

[@mr.firdoesh1648]

No its not about any magic, he could simply write basic of android development and security