Securing the System: A Deep Dive into Reversing Android Pre-Installed Apps

This talk will detail the differences in reversing and analyzing pre-installed Android applications compared to the user-space applications that most security research has focused on. This will include things like identifying when a pre-installed application is unlikely to run in an emulator without modification, detecting signals that the pre-installed app may be colluding with other components and be only one piece of the puzzle, and how bad behaviors can change when they instead are run in the more privileged context of a pre-installed application.
By Maddie Stone
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