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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

Installing and setting up Santoku


The folks at viaForensics have developed a really cool Ubuntu-based distribution packed with mobile security assessment tools, called Santoku. The following recipe shows you how to set up your own installation. The reason I'm doing this first is because you may want to install and run drozer inside your Santoku operating system installation.

Getting ready

To start off with, we're going to be doing some downloading. Grab a copy of the latest Santoku image from https://santoku-linux.com/download.

How to do it...

Once you've downloaded the latest copy of Santoku, you can begin setting it up as follows:

  1. To start off, you can write the Santoku image to a USB memory stick using either the Ubuntu start-up disk creator or the Universal USB installer for Windows, available at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.4.7.exe.

  2. Write the Santoku image you've downloaded to your USB disk.

  3. Using the Universal USB installer, perform...