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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 settings for Blackberry phones


Traditionally, Blackberry phones never used to provide an option to set up a proxy to the users. There was no option to specify proxy settings (proxy IP address and port number). Because of this, we cannot set a proxy to these phones. However, for testing purposes we used Simulator and set a proxy and conducted our testing. Let us now learn how to set a proxy to the Blackberry simulator.

Getting ready

We need to get our environment ready first. This recipe requires that any of the following be installed on the test machine:

  • MDS server with Blackberry simulator: Use the combination of MDS and Blackberry simulator to simulate the connection services of Blackberry Enterprise server (BES).

  • Blackberry 10 simulator: Use the Blackberry 10 simulator as a standalone device. Previously in this book, we learned about Blackberry 10 simulators.

  • Blackberry phone devices: Proxy can be set on Blackberry 10 phones as well.

How to do it...

The installation...