AttributeError: EncodedMethod instance has no attribute 'get_information'

[koto]

Running Mallodroid against freshly installed Androguard 1.9 - https://code.google.com/p/androguard/downloads/detail?name=androguard-1.9.tar.gz quickly produces exception: EncodedMethod instance has no attribute 'get_information'. In fact, looking at the androguard sources, EncodedMethod does not have get_information method, instead offering EncodedMethod.get_descriptor that lists types of parameters and type of return value.

$ ./mallodroid.py -f redacted.apk
Analyse file: redacted.apk
Package name: redacted
App requires INTERNET permission. Continue analysis...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./mallodroid.py", line 430, in
main()
File "./mallodroid.py", line 416, in main
_result = _check_all(_vm, _vmx, _gx)
File "./mallodroid.py", line 188, in _check_all
_hv, _a = _check_hostname_verifier(_method, _vm, _vmx)
File "./mallodroid.py", line 150, in _check_hostname_verifier
if _has_signature(_method, [_verify_string_sslsession, _verify_string_x509cert, _verify_string_sslsocket, _verify_string_subj_alt]):
File "./mallodroid.py", line 49, in _has_signature
_return = _method.get_information().get('return', None)
AttributeError: EncodedMethod instance has no attribute 'get_information'

[ndobri]

Instead of using the packaged release of androguard 1.9 you're better off with cloning the repo and work from there.
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/androguard/
The missing method attribute is in the class EncodedMethod but that actually exists in the source: https://code.google.com/p/androguard/source/browse/androguard/core/bytecodes/dvm.py