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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

Introduction


So far, we've covered some of the basic development and security assessment tools, and we even covered some examples of extending and customizing these tools. This chapter will focus on the use of these tools to analyze the Android applications to identify vulnerabilities and develop exploits for them. Although, given the arbitrary nature of application functionality and the almost limitless creativity Android application developers can exercise, it's not hard to see that assessing the security of Android applications must be considered an art. What this means for you as a security auditor, analyst, consultant, or hobbyist is that you can be sure that there will never be a fully autonomous method to analyze the security of the Android application. Almost always, you'd need to rely on your creativity and analysis to deliver a concrete assessment of an Android application's security.

Before we start banging away at some apps, it's important to frame the Android application security...