Apktool

I'd be curious if anyone has tried this for Android and what kind of stuff it's checking for. Sideloaded APKs can often contain malicious stuff, but it's nearly impossible to know if it's doing anything suspicious unless you open it up with a tool like Apktool [1] or run it on Triage [2] as it supports Android and watch what it's doing. Most antivirus for Android is pretty much a joke, as far as I'm concerned. [1] https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool?tab=readme-ov-file [2] https://tria.ge/

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 ActionScri