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How useful is reverse engineering?
Reverse-engineering is used for many purposes: as a learning tool; as a way to make new, compatible products that are cheaper than what’s currently on the market; for making software interoperate more effectively or to bridge data between different operating systems or databases; and to uncover the undocumented …
Can we get code from IPA?
The . ipa file contains, as you have noticed, your compiled project. So no, you can’t get the Xcode project file or the source code. (Unless of course, someone deliberately copied those files in).
Can you decompile IPA?
No it’s impossible to decompile iOS apps as they are platform specific and Apple have it’s own developer tools like compilers and linkers which are platform dependent and also app binaries are stripped in the process of converting your source code into byte code.
How to reverse engineer a proprietary data file format?
How to reverse engineer a proprietary data file format (e.g. Smartboard Notebook)? – Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange How to reverse engineer a proprietary data file format (e.g. Smartboard Notebook)? How should I begin trying to reverse engineer this file format?
What is the importance of automatic reverse engineering?
Recent work has established the importance of automatic reverse engineering of protocol or file format specifications. However, the formats reverse engineered by previous tools have missed important information that is critical for security applications.
How to find repeating parts in binary data?
Try to convert parts of the binary into 2 or 4 byte integers or into floats, print them and see if they make sence. Write some functions that will search for repeating or very similar parts in the data, this way you can easily spot headers. Try to find as many strings as possible, try different encodings (c strings, pascal strings, utf8/16, etc.).