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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

Stealing data from Blackberry applications


Stealing data from the application source code residing on the phone, as also recognized under OWASP Mobile Top 10 as M10: Lack of Binary Protection, is a source of leakage of sensitive hardcoded data. Reverse engineering the mobile application to obtain the decompiled source code and then mining the data hardcoded in the application is performed. At times developers tend to hardcode connection strings, passwords, keys, or access tokens in the application.

This recipe extends the goal of the previous recipe to the Blackberry platform and attempts to decompile the Blackberry application that is in .cod format.

Getting ready

The following tools are required for the readiness in accordance with the current recipe:

  • Coddec: A tool to convert .cod file to .java file is needed. We used Coddec for the same.

  • A few .cod files: We need a few application files that are .cod files to attempt decompilation.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Copy all the...