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Apktool
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Understanding security in React Native applications
App tampering and repackaging can be performed by using reverse engineering or tampering tools, such as Apktool, dex2jar, etc.
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Wearmodder Auto - Automatically scalling sideloaded apps for WearOS
Apktool made by iBotPeaches, this uses v2.9.1
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Getting Started, How to pirate on Pico 4 ?
Can someone clarify what "PP tools" are, and provide a link to them? I came across this link (https://apktool.org/) but I'm not sure if it's the right tool.
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Reverse engineering android app
Apktool is all you need most of the time.
- TUTORIAL: how to change Revanced icon to any icon you want.
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Should I reverse engineer the APK and upload it?
But it'll still be editable and we can make something good out of it. One of the famous ones, that I'm planning to use is ApkTool(https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/).
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A PSA for twitter lewds:
I did a dissection of twitter apk (got from apk pure) with apktool, and I found permission :
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Reverse Engineering the Facebook Messenger API
Not sure. I started reverse engineering Java apps very early in my life — initially it was J2ME games. Decompilers of the time sucked but that didn't stop me from modding Gravity Defied :P
I honestly don't know what's a good way of getting started on reverse engineering. There's a bunch of everything about Windows executables in particular, including "crackmes", but native machine code is a level up from JVM bytecode. Java classes and Android dex files can be decompiled back to sensible source with a good chance that you get something that can be compiled again. No such luck for native code — C/C++ compilation is a lossy process by its nature, especially the optimizations. Ghidra does a decent job but still requires a non-zero amount of manual assistance. Flash games also were good to hone one's reverse engineering skills since ActionScript decompilers did a pretty darn good job.
Anyway. To decompile dex to Java source, there's jadx: https://github.com/skylot/jadx
Since decompilation is sometimes lossy, there's apktool for when you want to put the app back together after tinkering with it: https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool
It goes without saying that you also need a JDK and the Android SDK. In particular, you need apksigner form the SDK to sign the unsigned apks generated by apktool. You can also automate things a bit and use adb to deploy them to your device.
What I usually do is get a high-level overview of the app in jadx, and then modify the smali (dalvik bytecode in text form, very assembly-like) files generated by apktool.
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Anyone have the ability to pull the files from walkabout mini golf, trying to 3d print them but I can't find the files
I am not game or android app dev, but you might first need to de-compile apk using tools like https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/
- É possível fazer engenharia reversa em um app na playstore?
z3
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Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?
See https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/6/273222-the-silent-revo... and also modern production rules engines like https://drools.org/
Oddly, back when “expert system shells” were cool people thought 10,000 rules were difficult to handle, now 1,000,000 might not be a problem at all. Back then the RETE algorithm was still under development and people were using linear search and not hash tables to do their lookups.
Also https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3
Note “the semantic web” is both an advance and a retreat in that OWL is a subset of first order logic which is really decidable and sorta kinda fast. It can do a lot but people aren’t really happy with what it can do.
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Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper
Code correctness is a lost art. I requirement to think in abstractions is what scares a lot of devs to avoid it. The higher abstraction language (formal specs) focus on a dedicated language to describe code, whereas lower abstractions (code contracts) basically replace validation logic with a better model.
C# once had Code Contracts[1]; a simple yet powerful way to make formal specifications. The contracts was checked at compile time using the Z3 SMT solver[2]. It was unfortunately deprecated after a few years[3] and once removed from the .NET Runtime it was declared dead.
The closest thing C# now have is probably Dafny[4] while the C# dev guys still try to figure out how to implement it directly in the language[5].
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/code-contra...
[2] https://github.com/Z3Prover/z3
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/CodeContracts
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Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond
I believe, Nim also has this functionality, although, it uses the [0]Z3Prover tool with a nim frontend [1]"DrNim" for proving.
- Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)
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If You've Got Enough Money, It's All 'Lawful'
Don't get me wrong, there are times when Microsoft got it right the first time that was technically far superior to their competitors. Windows IOCP was theoretically capable of doing C10K as far back in 1994-95 when there wasn't any hardware support yet and UNIX world was bickering over how to do asynchronous I/O. Years later POSIX came up with select which was a shoddy little shit in comparison. Linux caved in finally only as recently as 2019 and implemented io_uring. Microsoft research has contributed some very interesting things to computer science like Z3 SAT solver and in collaboration with INRIA made languages like F* and Low* for formal specification and verification. But all this dwarfs in comparison to all the harm they did.
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Constraint Programming 'linking' variables
Z3 theorem prover SMT solver might help you.
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General mathematical expression analysis system
Other than that, you should look at Z3 which is pretty damn good at these sort of theorems/constraints.
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-🎄- 2022 Day 21 Solutions -🎄-
In the end I used Z3 Julia bindings instead. The hardest part was to get the result back from it, because I kept running into assertion violations from inside Z3
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Question about Predicate Transformer Semantics
I'm trying to learn a little bit about Predicate Transformer Semantics (PTS) as part of a quick exploration of Z3.
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The Little Prover
> And you propose me instead to go and reverse engineer library Js code which I am not that proficient in, and rewrite all code in Java instead?..
Yes, rather than demand others cater to your whims, frankly.
Do you realise how hypocritical it sounds to complain that you are not proficient in Javascript, when others might not be proficient in ?
Go use Z3 if you need a prover in C++ (or Java), its far more robust (provided its the type you're after) than someones 700 LoC JavaScript implementation.
What are some alternatives?
jadx - Dex to Java decompiler
employee-scheduling-ui - An UI component for Employee Scheduling application.
dex2jar - Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
advent-of-code - My solutions to http://adventofcode.com/ :)
Uber Apk Signer - A cli tool that helps signing and zip aligning single or multiple Android application packages (APKs) with either debug or provided release certificates. It supports v1, v2 and v3 Android signing scheme has an embedded debug keystore and auto verifies after signing.
advent-of-code-go - All 8 years of adventofcode.com solutions in Go/Golang; 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool [Moved to: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk]
magmide - A dependently-typed proof language intended to make provably correct bare metal code possible for working software engineers.
androguard - Reverse engineering and pentesting for Android applications
ikos - Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation.
Ghidra-Cpp-Class-Analyzer - Ghidra C++ Class and Run Time Type Information Analyzer