Konloch / Konloch/bytecode-viewer
Decompiling Android APK fails in 2.10.12
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Description
I get the following error when trying to decompile an APK:
Bytecode Viewer Version: 2.10.12, Preview Copy: false, Fat Jar: true, OS: Linux, Java: 11.0.11
brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Invalid chunk type: expected=0x00000200, got=0x00000203
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.checkChunkType(ARSCDecoder.java:544)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTablePackage(ARSCDecoder.java:88)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTableHeader(ARSCDecoder.java:82)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:48)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:790)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:67)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:59)
at brut.androlib.Androlib.getResTable(Androlib.java:66)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.setTargetSdkVersion(ApkDecoder.java:236)
at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:118)
at brut.apktool.Main.cmdDecode(Main.java:179)
at brut.apktool.Main.main(Main.java:82)
at the.bytecode.club.bytecodeviewer.util.APKTool.decodeResources(APKTool.java:39)
at the.bytecode.club.bytecodeviewer.resources.importing.impl.APKResourceImporter.open(APKResourceImporter.java:36)
at the.bytecode.club.bytecodeviewer.resources.importing.ImportResource.run(ImportResource.java:78)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
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Research direction
Start at APKResourceImporter.java:36 and follow the resource-decoding path in the stack trace through ApkDecoder and ARSCDecoder. Reproduce the failure with the affected APK, then determine why its resource table produces chunk type 0x00000203 instead of 0x00000200. Done means the APK decompiles without this exception.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, java
- Domain
- mobile-dev, reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100