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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

Launching intent injection in Android


Android uses intents to request action from another application component. A common communication is passing Intent to start a service. We will exploit this fact via an intent injection attack.

An intent injection attack works by injecting intent into the application component to perform a task that is usually not allowed by the application workflow. For example, if the Android application has a login activity which, post successful authentication, allows you access to protected data via another activity. Now if an attacker can invoke the internal activity to access protected data by passing an Intent, it would be an Intent Injection attack.

Getting ready

Install Drozer by downloading it from https://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/products/drozer/ and following the installation instructions mentioned in the User Guide.

Install Drozer Console Agent and start a session as mentioned in the User Guide.

If your installation is correct, you should get a Drozer command...