MOBILE HACKING | MOBILE HACKING TOOLS | LIST OF MOBILE HACKING TOOLS | DEX2JAR | DEX2JAR WORKING SND INSTALATION

 List of android Hacking Tools:

• Dex2jar:-

                             It converts dex code (android bytecode) into java JAR files for manipulating                                     and  decompilation 

                             It is a freely available tool to work with Android “.dex” and Java                               “.class” files. As you may aware that “.dex” files are compiled                                  Android application code file. Android programs are compiled into                         “.dex” (Dalvik Executable) files, which are in turn zipped into a                               single “.apk” file on the device. The “.dex” files can be created                               automatically by Android, by translating the compiled applications                         written in the Java programming language.

                     The core feature of Dex2Jar is to convert the classes.dex file of an                         APK to classes.jar or vice versa. So, it is possible to view the                                source  code of an Android application using any Java decompiler,                        and it is completely readable. Here, we get .class files and not the                          actual Java source code that was written by the application                                    developer.

                     Also, it is possible to get “.smali” files directly from the classes.dex                         file or vice versa. That means you can change the source code of                         an application directly working with this format.

• Usage:-   

                             1. In the root directory run: ./gradlew distZip

                          2. cd dex-tools/build/distributions

                          3. Unzip the file dex-tools-2.1-SNAPSHOT.zip (file size should be ~5 MB

                          4. Run d2j-dex2jar.sh from the unzipped directory

        

• Installation and Setup

                     We can find Dex2Jar tool pre-installed on Kali-Linux under reverse                         engineering tools, illustrated in below screenshot.

                      You can download the latest version of Dex2Jar from here. The                              installation process is quite straightforward; you just must unzip the                        package in a folder of your choice and then add Environment                                Variables System “PATH.” That is it; you are ready to start using                            dex2jar!

                     Below is the content of the Dex2Jar folder after extracting, I am                             using the latest available version, i.e., version: reader-2.0,                                   translator-2.0, ir-2.0.

                     As you can see in the above screenshot, there are several scripts                         available (for Unix, Mac and Windows systems), each key feature                         of  dex2jar is provided in a separate script.

                     You may set the Environment Variables System “PATH” variable to                         access Dex2Jar from anywhere. Illustrated below:

                      Now, Open the command prompt from anywhere and enter the                              below command. Note that you may need to give permission to                              Dex2Jar.bat file to execute.