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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

Introduction


We've covered all the Android development basics and introduced all the Android Development Tools. Now it's time to start getting into the Android hacking and security assessment tools.

This chapter introduces you to an exploitation and Android security assessment framework called drozer —formally known as Mercury —developed by some of the people at MWR Labs. Also covered in the chapter is a Debian-based Linux distribution called Santoku , which is basically like BackTrack or Kali Linux of Mobile security assessment. Here we cover setting it up and getting it running.

Before we begin setting up drozer and writing some sample scripts, something that's very important for you to understand is a little about how drozer operates and how it solves some problems in the Android security assessment game.

drozer comes in two parts: one is the "console" that runs on your local machine and the other is the "server", which is basically an application installed on a target Android device. When...