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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

Configuring traffic interception with iOS


A penetration testing lab for mobile device interception is conceptualized in the, Setting up the wireless pentesting lab for mobile devices, recipe of this chapter. We have to configure an iOS device to force step 2 (described in the first recipe) to follow a network proxy. Let us learn in this recipe how to do this in iOS devices.

Getting ready

An iOS device, along with other necessities of lab setup like Wi-Fi network and a laptop with web proxy tools (as discussed in the first recipe of this chapter) are required.

How to do it...

iOS provides a proxy as a feature to iDevice users. This makes it very easy for users or attackers to set up traffic interception for iOS applications. The device proxy settings are global and apply for applications too.

The settings can be configured by navigating to settings in an iPhone or iPad.

For this, go to Wi-Fi settings and select the Wi-Fi you wish to connect to; there you can see Proxy Settings under Advanced Options...