Understanding Mobile Malware through the Reverse Engineering

In the last years, mobile malware has become a serious threat to thousands of users. The massive increase in the use of smartphones with the Android platform makes the need for malware analysis of this platform a critical issue. It is necessary though, to understand how the Android Malware works, and also to find out how to defend this platform from malicious attacks. In this research, the reverse engineering is used as the tool to understand the structure and functionality of the malware. A virtual environment is created for the analysis of the mobile malware to understand how the behavioral analysis, as well as the code analysis are conducted to determine how you can alert the users to recognize a downloaded malware and what they can do to avoid it.