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Hacking Android

By : Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

By: Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Overview of this book

With the mass explosion of Android mobile phones in the world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Security of Android devices is a broad subject that should be part of our everyday lives to defend against ever-growing smartphone attacks. Everyone, starting with end users all the way up to developers and security professionals should care about android security. Hacking Android is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with Android security. You’ll begin your journey at the absolute basics, and then will slowly gear up to the concepts of Android rooting, application security assessments, malware, infecting APK files, and fuzzing. On this journey you’ll get to grips with various tools and techniques that can be used in your everyday pentests. You’ll gain the skills necessary to perform Android application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing and will create an Android pentesting lab.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hacking Android
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Client-Side Attacks – Static Analysis Techniques

In the previous chapter, we covered server-side attacks associated with Android applications. This chapter covers various client-side attacks from a static application security testing (SAST) perspective. In the next chapter we will cover the same client-side attacks from a dynamic application security testing (DAST) perspective and will also see some automated tools. To successfully execute most of the attacks covered in this chapter, an attacker needs to convince the victim to install a malicious application on his/her phone. Additionally, it is also possible for an attacker to successfully exploit the apps if he has physical access to the device.

Following are some of the major topics that we will discuss in this chapter:

  • Attacking application components

  • Activities

  • Services

  • Broadcast receivers

  • Content providers

  • Leaking content providers

  • SQL Injection in content providers

  • Automated Static Analysis using QARK