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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By : Aditya Gupta
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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By: Aditya Gupta

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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices
Aditya Gupta
Mar, 2014 | 154 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Pentesting for Android Devices
Learning Pentesting for Android Devices
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Android Security
Getting Started with Android Security
Introduction to Android
Digging deeper into Android
Sandboxing and the permission model
Application signing
Android startup process
Summary
2
Preparing the Battlefield
Preparing the Battlefield
Setting up the development environment
Useful utilities for Android Pentest
Summary
3
Reversing and Auditing Android Apps
Reversing and Auditing Android Apps
Android application teardown
Reversing an Android application
Using Apktool to reverse an Android application
Auditing Android applications
Content provider leakage
Insecure file storage
OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for mobiles
Summary
4
Traffic Analysis for Android Devices
Traffic Analysis for Android Devices
Android traffic interception
Ways to analyze Android traffic
HTTPS Proxy interception
Extracting sensitive files with packet capture
Summary
5
Android Forensics
Android Forensics
Types of forensics
Filesystems
Using dd to extract data
Using Andriller to extract an application's data
Using AFLogical to extract contacts, calls, and text messages
Dumping application databases manually
Logging the logcat
Using backup to extract an application's data
Summary
6
Playing with SQLite
Playing with SQLite
Understanding SQLite in depth
Security vulnerability
Summary
7
Lesser-known Android Attacks
Lesser-known Android Attacks
Android WebView vulnerability
Infecting legitimate APKs
Vulnerabilities in ad libraries
Cross-Application Scripting in Android
Summary
8
ARM Exploitation
ARM Exploitation
Introduction to ARM architecture
Setting up the environment
Simple stack-based buffer overflow
Return-oriented programming
Android root exploits
Summary
9
Writing the Pentest Report
Writing the Pentest Report
Basics of a penetration testing report
Writing the pentest report
Summary
Security Audit of
Table of Contents
1.
2. Auditing and Methodology
3. Conclusions
Index
Index

Android WebView vulnerability

WebView is an Android view that is used in order to display web content in an application. It uses the WebKit rendering engine in order to display web pages and other content with the file:// and data:// protocols, which could be used to load files and data content from the filesystem. WebView is used in various Android applications as well, which display the web content in the application, such as applications offering signup and login, by framing their mobile website in the application's layout. We will be discussing more about WebKit and its rendering engine in the next chapter. For this chapter, we will only be concerned about those applications that use WebKit.

Using WebView in the application

The use of WebView in an application is quite simple and straightforward. Let's say we would like our entire activity to be a WebView component, loading content from http://examplewebsite.com.

Here is the code sample to implement WebView in an Android application:

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