Deep Dive into the Dalvik Virtual Machine’s JIT Implementation

Deep Dive into Dalvik Virtual Machine’s JIT Implementation - Infiltrate 2018

Take a deep dive into the Dalvik Virtual Machine's JIT implementation and how it can be used and abused to execute shellcode.

Watch this video to take a cursory look at the JIT compiler introduced in Android Nougat, and whether or not the same techniques can be applied. In addition, we review the tools that were created in order to assist in tracing through and deconstructing the JIT compilation internals. View the slides here.