Although it was announced on April 1st, it was no joke that I’ll be mentoring an Android Malware analysis project for Google Summer of Code.

It’s been an interesting experience and trial by fire for my first time ever being involved in a Google Summer of Code project. The first few weeks were spent answering innumerable questions from prospective students either clarifying the project requirements or requesting feedback on their proposals. Now that the submission deadline has past, things have quieted down a bit, but I fear it’s only the quiet before the storm. Once students are selected on April 25th, and with any luck I’ll be paired with my requested student, I expect that we’ll hit the ground running to start architecting and designing an Android static analysis tool that the student can complete by the end of the Summer.

I may post some updates on the project here from time to time, and I’m sure there will be regular status updates by myself and the student on an official google code site. Stay tuned for results, and with any luck we’ll have a functional static analysis tools with an IDA-like UI by the end of the Summer.

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