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Mobile Device Exploitation Cookbook

By : Akshay Dixit
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Mobile Device Exploitation Cookbook

By: Akshay Dixit

Overview of this book

Mobile attacks are on the rise. We are adapting ourselves to new and improved smartphones, gadgets, and their accessories, and with this network of smart things, come bigger risks. Threat exposure increases and the possibility of data losses increase. Exploitations of mobile devices are significant sources of such attacks. Mobile devices come with different platforms, such as Android and iOS. Each platform has its own feature-set, programming language, and a different set of tools. This means that each platform has different exploitation tricks, different malware, and requires a unique approach in regards to forensics or penetration testing. Device exploitation is a broad subject which is widely discussed, equally explored by both Whitehats and Blackhats. This cookbook recipes take you through a wide variety of exploitation techniques across popular mobile platforms. The journey starts with an introduction to basic exploits on mobile platforms and reverse engineering for Android and iOS platforms. Setup and use Android and iOS SDKs and the Pentesting environment. Understand more about basic malware attacks and learn how the malware are coded. Further, perform security testing of Android and iOS applications and audit mobile applications via static and dynamic analysis. Moving further, you'll get introduced to mobile device forensics. Attack mobile application traffic and overcome SSL, before moving on to penetration testing and exploitation. The book concludes with the basics of platforms and exploit tricks on BlackBerry and Windows Phone. By the end of the book, you will be able to use variety of exploitation techniques across popular mobile platforms with stress on Android and iOS.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Mobile Device Exploitation Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Auditing iOS application using static analysis


Static analysis in source code reviews is an easier technique, and employing static string searches makes it convenient to use. Static analysis is conducted on the raw or decompiled source code or on the compiled (object) code, but the analysis is conducted outside of runtime. Usually, static analysis figures out vulnerable or insecure code patterns.

Getting ready

For conducting static analysis of iOS applications, we need at least one iOS application and a static code scanner. Pick up any iOS application of your choice and use any static analyzer tool of your choice.

We will use iOS-ScriptDroid, which is a static analysis script, developed by Android security researcher, Dinesh Shetty.

How to do it...

  1. Keep the decompressed iOS application filed and note the path of the folder containing the .m files.

  2. Create an iOS-ScriptDroid.bat file by using the following code:

      ECHO Running ScriptDriod ... 
      @ECHO OFF 
      SET /P Filelocation=Please Enter...