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Which are the best tools to reverse engineer Android Apps? For me jd-gui was not working very well, it was not able to decompile many long methods and just thr
by atesti 7y ago
Which are the best tools to reverse engineer Android Apps?
For me jd-gui was not working very well, it was not able to decompile many long methods and just threw errors. Is there any actively developed JAR or dalvik decompiler?
- krackers 7y agoJEB decompiler (https://www.pnfsoftware.com/ https://www.pnfsoftware.com/) seems to be the standard
- mdaniel 7y agoI doubt there are "best," as each tool has strengths and weaknesses, along with the workflow and prerequisites that go with them, but I've had good experience using dex2jar and then feeding the jar to procyon (for clarity I am just investigating normal apps, and not malware samples) https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar#readme https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar#readme https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/procyon/wiki/Java%20Decompiler https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/procyon/wiki/Java%20Decompile...
- nneonneo 7y agoI used a mix of apktool (reading raw Smali code) and jd-gui for a while, but recently transitioned mostly to using JADX: https://github.com/skylot/jadx https://github.com/skylot/jadx JADX is really nice - there’s a decent GUI, and it also supports exporting the whole thing as an Android Studio project so you can directly take advantage of the refactor tools there for more deobfuscation. It also has a smarter decompiler than JD as it’s specialized to go straight from dex to Java (JD makes a trip through the classic JVM class format, which loses some nuance of dex). Of course, many of the apps I’m taking apart have native components, for which I use GHIDRA and IDA.