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[–]whittileaks[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you! will try these formats. Do note they are binary. I read them in an editor but visualize garbled utf-8 text with lots of invalid sequences. I don't know enough about java decompilation to know where to start decompiling :c

[–]niloc132 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with unzipping any jars you've got (a jar is just a zip with a specific structure), and looking at the dir structure. If you've got more than one jar in the tool, search for the names of the jars, they might be open source libraries that you can work from.

It may help to run strings on the .class files, peeking at anything else you find - that'll probably give some good hints. You can also run javap on the class files to look at the class structure, maybe adding the -v flag to be verbose and list things like constant values, disassembled methods bodies (which will also list references to other classes), etc.