ARTist - A Novel Instrumentation Framework for Reversing and Analyzing Android Apps and the Middleware

Explore the Android Runtime (ART) and its on-device compiler dex2oat in this 20-minute Black Hat conference talk. Delve into ARTist, a novel instrumentation framework for reversing and analyzing Android apps and middleware. Learn about deployment strategies, SteveoComp, ARTist modules, and how to create them. Gain insights into the current state of ARTist and its implications for Android security research, addressing the gap left by the deprecation of the Dalvik VM and the limitations of traditional tools like TaintDroid.