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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

Running a drozer session


So you've got drozer all set up and ready to go; you can start running some drozer sessions on a sample Android device—preferably one with the drozer Agent installed on it.

The following recipe takes you through the basics of setting up a drozer session and how to fire off some quick and easy modules via the drozer console.

How to do it...

Before proceeding with this recipe, you will need to have installed the drozer console on your machine and drozer Agent on the target device. If all that's been sorted, you can move on to running your drozer console session by performing the following steps:

  1. Using ADB, set up some port forwarding, provided you have some kind of device connected:

    adb forward tcp:31415 tcp:31415
    
  2. You'll need to make sure the drozer Embedded Server has been started. You will need to start it via the application's interface on your device. Simply find the drozer Agent on your device; it should have popped up somewhere among the other apps on your device...