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Quick and Easy Android Malware Analysis - Part 1 Getting Started

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Over the last year I have been performing research on mobile devices. My last job had me analyzing the security of Android applications and recently I found my new job drawing on my past experience to help someone analyze some Android malware. First we started to do some research on potential solutions that could help automate analysis or at least do some type of dynamic analysis and that is were I stumbled onto CuckooDroid (https://github.com/idanr1986/cuckoo-droid). After a day or two of  messing with CuckooDroid I decided that it was a little overkill for what I needed to do which was grab a PCAP of the traffic. In one of my next post I'll cover setting it up but for now here is what you need to do if you want to do a quick and easy analysis of an Android malware sample.  1) Install Android Studio (http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html) 2) Use the SDK Manager to install the SDKs and Images to work for the malware you are going to be analyzing. 3)