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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

Setting up the target


Since we have covered most of the tools that we require with respect to the tools in Chapter 4, Loading up – Mobile Pentesting Tools, let's directly jump into setting up the target app. We will use two vulnerable apps that we learned about in Chapter 1, The Mobile Application Security Landscape, in the Vulnerable applications to practice section and set these as our target apps to demonstrate the OWASP Mobile Top 10 vulnerabilities. The two apps are as follows:

We will be using MacBook for some activities that require Xcode, Hopper (available for Linux too), LLDB that can be run only on OS X. For the assessment, we will create the folder in OS X as /Users/User/Desktop/iOSTarget/.

As we have done the majority of the...