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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

Analyzing the app using drozer


Drozer's inbuilt module app.package.manifest will give us presentable information about the AndroidManifest.xml file and display it in the console, as shown in the following screenshot:

This output helps us understand the app's Process Name, Data Directory, APK Path, UID and GID, Shared Libraries and Shared User ID (if any), and most importantly, permission details.

Our target app, FourGoats, has permissions to send SMSes, make phone calls, and access location data and the Internet on the mobile device.

Note

These details can also be extracted using other tools, such as APKTOOL and Androguard.