Objective: Analyze and reverse engineer a malicious Android app.

In this lab, you will analyze and reverse engineer a malicious Android app. The point of malware analysis is to understand what the malware does. The number of malicious Android apps is staggering. 'Every week or so, there’s a new form of Android malware discovered that works in a unique way from what's come before'

About Android Apps

Java is the official programming language used to write Android apps. An Android app is contained in an APK file (Android Package Kit). An APK file is actually in ZIP format, an archive. Provided an APK file, you can extract the contents of the app and decompile the app.