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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

Inspecting network traffic


As we know, applications can make use of the networking services available on an Android device, and many applications are developed as frontends to cloud-based services. What this means is that understanding how it communicates with the Internet services is a very important part of the security risk profile—the collection of risks an application exposes its users and its device to.

In this recipe, I'm going to show you some novel methods that you can use to monitor network traffic directly from an Android device using the ever popular Wireshark.

Getting ready

Before we can get cracking, there are a couple of tools you will need to install both on your local machine and the Android device. Here are the tools you'll need to get:

  • Wireshark: It is available for download at the Wireshark site http://www.wireshark.org, Wireshark supports both Linux/Unix and Windows machines. You should make sure this is installed on your host machine before starting. Installing Wireshark...