What does L mean in "Lorg/t0t0/androguard/TC/TCMod1;"

[Doaa Hassan]

Hi All,

Currently I am trying to create a signature and add it to database using androcsign. I took a look to the signature classes_tc.sign in /tools/androguard/examples/obfu and I would like to know what does L mean in "Lorg/t0t0/androguard/TC/TCMod1;". I just noticed that I can add this signature to the database if I keep L and if I remove it ( i.e., using "org/t0t0/androguard/TC/TCMod1;" instead of "Lorg/t0t0/androguard/TC/TCMod1;") I get the error below:

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android@honeynet:~/tools/androguard$ ./androcsign.py -i examples/obfu/classes_tc.sign -o examples/obfu/dbsample
impossible to find org/t0t0/androguard/TC/TCMod1; T1 ()V
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./androcsign.py", line 68, in <module>
    main(options, arguments)
  File "./androcsign.py", line 40, in main
    ret = s.add_file( open( options.input, "rb" ).read() )
  File ".//core/analysis/msign.py", line 494, in add_file
    raise("ooo")
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not str

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Do you have any clue to fix the problem?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Doaa