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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

Snoop-IT for assessment


Snoop-IT runs only on the 32-bit architecture. This has significantly limited the tool to be utilized in latest mobile phones. However, a majority of the tasks that we performed manually in the preceding sections can be performed by this single tool. The following screen capture of Snoop-it displays the filesystem during the runtime of this app.

Typically, there are three sections:

  • Monitoring: Monitor the filesystem, keychain, network, sensitive APIs, and common cryptography used

  • Analysis: This section displays all the objective-C classes, controllers, and other URL schemes

  • Runtime manipulation: Unlike Cycript, which we perform manually, this is just a single-click manipulation that one can perform in the GUI environment

Once we have a 64-bit version of Snoop-IT available, it will be one of the best tools to be used for any iOS app security assessment. Other tools, such as Appsec labs iNalyzer (https://github.com/appsec-labs/iNalyzer) and Veracode's iRET (https://www...