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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

Enumerating broadcast receivers


Broadcast receivers often hold useful information about an application's attack surface and could offer attackers the opportunity to do many things, from performing arbitrary code execution to proliferating information; because of this, they cannot be ignored during an application-focused security assessment. The drozer developers were well aware of this fact and provided modules to help gain information about broadcast receivers.

The following recipe demonstrates the app.broadcast.info module by detailing its different invocation options.

How to do it...

The enumeration of broadcast receivers is performed using the following command:

dz> run app.broadcast.info

The output for the previous command should be similar to the following screenshot:

This app.broadcast.info module has all the cool features the other .info modules have and some more broadcast-receiver-specific options.

You can specify a specific package from which to extract information on receivers...