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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Mobile security has come a long way over the last few years. It has transitioned from "should it be done?" to "it must be done!"Alongside the growing number of devises and applications, there is also a growth in the volume of Personally identifiable information (PII), Financial Data, and much more. This data needs to be secured. This is why Pen-testing is so important to modern application developers. You need to know how to secure user data, and find vulnerabilities and loopholes in your application that might lead to security breaches. This book gives you the necessary skills to security test your mobile applications as a beginner, developer, or security practitioner. You'll start by discovering the internal components of an Android and an iOS application. Moving ahead, you'll understand the inter-process working of these applications. Then you'll set up a test environment for this application using various tools to identify the loopholes and vulnerabilities in the structure of the applications. Finally, after collecting all information about these security loop holes, we'll start securing our applications from these threats.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Full Steam Ahead – Attacking Android Applications

The strategy of attacking is to allow your enemy to make mistakes.

In this chapter, we will be breaking down all of the facts that we need to start attacking and penetration testing Android applications. Each tool that was covered in the previous chapters will be put to good use by us referencing them and what they can do for a given vulnerability. The chapter will discuss all the top 10 OWASP mobile application vulnerabilities and how to attack Android apps and their given weaknesses, with examples. The reader should walk away with knowledge of the following:

  • Attacking Android components

  • Attacking Android WebViews

  • Assessing implementation vulnerabilities

  • Abusing web traffic for MitM attacks

  • Reverse engineering subtle logic vulnerabilities

  • Defeating binary protection

As discussed in the previous chapters, it would be a tough job for developers to create an app that has no vulnerabilities. There are three types of scenarios that can be...