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Android Security Cookbook

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Android Security Cookbook

Overview of this book

Android Security Cookbook discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems. The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs. The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework. Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption vulnerabilities on ARM devices. In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components, the data stored, secure networking. In summary, Android Security Cookbook provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interacting with the activity manager via ADB


Getting to know the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is quite crucial to any budding Android security specialist. The ADB allows you to interact directly with the native services and resources, such as the package manager, activity manager, and other various daemons that are crucial to an Android system's operation used by the Android system. This recipe will provide details on how to interact with the activity manager by demonstrating a few commands that you can fire off.

Getting ready

Before we start, you will need the following things:

  • The Android SDK tools

  • Either a virtual device, see the Inspecting the AndroidManifest.xml file recipe to find out how to create and launch one, or a physical Android device

How to do it…

To launch activities using the application manager, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Drop a shell on your Android device with the help of the following command:

    adb shell
    
  2. Find yourself an activity to launch; you can do this by searching...