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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

Android security tools


Before we take a deep dive into tools, let's list down the tools that are crucial and powerful. In this section, we will go ahead and install all the required tools that are mostly used but not limited during the penetration testing activity. All the tools will give best results on a rooted Android phone.

APKAnalyser

APKAnalyser is Java-based (GUI) application tool that can perform static and virtual analysis. This tool provides the following detailed information during static code analysis:

  • API references

  • Application architecture and dependencies

  • Disassembled bytecodes

  • The ability to rebuild, install, and run the app

  • Adb logcat to verify the results

The following steps are involved in setting up APKAnalyser:

  1. Download the tool from https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/ApkAnalyser/downloads.

  2. Save the file into our Hackbox folder, which we created in Chapter 3, Building a Test Environment. This time, we are adding the tools into a new folder, A-tools.

  3. Launch APKAnalyser by issuing...