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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

Man-in-the-Middle attacks


Set up the proxy and point it to your system IP, which is running the Burp proxy either in wireless or the APN settings, which we discussed in Chapter 4, Loading up – Mobile Pentesting Tools.

Now, open the DVIA app and navigate to Menu | Transport Layer Protection | Enter Data | SEND OVER HTTP; you should be able to see the following screenshot on your system that is running the proxy:

Beating the SSL cert pinning

Following the preceding steps, if you try to hit SEND OVER HTTPS, you might receive the following error, as shown in this screenshot:

Now, you have to navigate to Settings | SSL Kill Switch and turn on the option for DVIA, as shown in the following screenshot. This will disable the cert pinning on the app.

Now, your proxy should be able receive the SSL requests on your browser without any further issues.

This allows us to manipulate the encrypted traffic between the server and the mobile app channel for more server-side attacks, such as the classic SQL injection...