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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

Enumerating services


You may also want to know about the services that are installed on your device. drozer has a module called app.service.info that extracts some useful information about services.

How to do it...

Execute the following command from your drozer console:

dz> run app.service.info –-package [package name]

Running this command with no arguments lists all the services installed on the target device. It will look something like the following screenshot when run:

You can also use the following filters to narrow down your search:

  • Search based on permissions:

    dz> run app.service.info –p [permission label]
    dz> run app.service.info –-permission [permission label]
    
  • Search based on service names:

    dz> run app.service.info –f [Filter string]
    dz> run app.service.info. –filter [filter string]
    
  • You can also choose to list unexported services, such as the following:

    dz> run app.service.info –u
    dz> run app.service.info –-unexported
    
  • And lastly, if you'd like information about...