Overview
Android is three billion devices of hardened, audited, relentlessly defended code, and fuzzing brings it down anyway. The method is brutally simple: Bury the system in malformed input, and wait for the rare case that cracks something open. Every crash is a lead, and behind it is usually a way in.
The Google engineers who authored this book do that for a living. They’ve fuzzed Android’s Binder IPC, the Pixel modem, the GPU drivers, and the kernel, uncovering root-level vulnerabilities the architecture was supposed to keep out of reach, and now they show you how they work.
Most fuzzing books stop at the concept; this one runs the campaign. You’ll learn how to:
- Build reproducible fuzzing environments across emulators and physical devices
- Target Android’s Binder IPC, native system services, GPU drivers, and kernel interfaces
- Instrument code for coverage using AFL++ or libFuzzer and extend Syzkaller to reach new kernel drivers
- Triage, reproduce, and investigate crashes to uncover real vulnerabilities
- Develop the judgment to choose high- value targets and bypass runtime checks when appropriate.
Whether you’re a security researcher, an OEM security engineer, or a bug bounty hunter, Fuzzing Android is your operational playbook for finding vulnerabilities in the world’s largest mobile platform.
Covers: Android 17+ and is backward compatible with earlier AOSP releases.
Requires: A physical Android device or emulator (Cuttlefish); all required tools are open source.
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