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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

Exploring the iOS filesystem


Although a majority of our filesystem exploration will be interesting only when the device is jailbroken, it is also possible to access the filesystem on non-jailbroken devices and explore the files that are available. This is possible only when the device is paired with a PC. The latest versions of iOS (7 and later) introduced a new feature that when a device is plugged in to a PC for pairing, the user is prompted to either trust the computer or not; earlier versions allowed pairing without issuing any alerts.

Some important file locations are summarized here:

  • /Applications: All the system applications are stored in this location

  • /var/mobile/Applications: Third-party applications are stored here; this has been replaced by the Containers folder in iOS 8 and later versions (/private/var/mobile/Containers/Bundle/Applications)

  • /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail: This contains voicemail details

  • /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS: This has SMS data

  • /private/var/mobile...