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The Dex File Format

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30 points by fractalwrench 8 years ago · 3 comments

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vmarquet 8 years ago

For a quick reference of the Dex file format, Ange Albertini (known for PoC||GTFO) made a poster: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/DalvikEXe...

All his posters are pretty amazing: https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/README.md

xg15 8 years ago

> The next value is a checksum, which is calculated by applying a function to the contents of the entire file, excluding any bytes preceding the checksum.

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> The header also includes a SHA-1 hash of the file (excluding any preceding bytes).

Wait, each checksum includes the other? How does that work?

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