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Android Security Cookbook

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Android Security Cookbook

Overview of this book

Android Security Cookbook discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems. The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs. The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework. Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption vulnerabilities on ARM devices. In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components, the data stored, secure networking. In summary, Android Security Cookbook provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up drozer


Installing and setting up drozer is fairly straightforward; the set up process is demonstrated for both Windows 7 and Unix/Linux types of systems.

How to do it...

Before we start hacking out some drozer scripts and get to know the exploitation and enumeration modules, you will need to grab a copy of the drozer installer suited to your system. Here's how you do that:

  1. Head over to https://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/products/drozer/community-edition/ to grab a copy of the drozer framework; of course, here I will be talking about the community edition. If you wish to spend some cash on the non-free edition, head over to https://products.mwrinfosecurity.com/drozer/buy.

    Windows users should click on the drozer (Windows installer) option; it should start downloading the drozer-installer-[version].zip file immediately.

    Unix/Linux users would, depending on your distribution or OS flavor, choose either the drozer (Debian/Ubuntu Archive) file or the drozer (RPM) package file.

  2. Once you've downloaded...