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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

Hardcoded username and password


There are potential possibilities that developers leave behind backdoors within apps. In our case, this happens while we do a deep analysis of the class dump.

The following code snippet displays ApplicationPatchingDetailsVC, an interesting interface that includes a username and password:

  @interface ApplicationPatchingDetailsVC : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> {
    UITextField* _usernameTextField;
   UITextField* _passwordTextField;
  }

Let's now load the app into Hopper, and in the labels, let's type ApplicationPatchingDetailsVC, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the right pane, if you click on the Pseudo code, we should be able to see the username and the password in plain text.

In this case, let's now try and log in to the app using the username Admin and the password This!sA5ecret, as shown in the following figure:

This proves that we are able to log in with the hardcoded username and password without any issues; you should receive a successful...