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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

Reading local data in Windows phone


As we have learned previously in this book, mobile apps tend to store data on the phone. The data stored can be in multiple formats on different mobile platforms like .plist, .sqlite, and .xml file. OWASP recognizes this under M2: Insecure Data Storage. Data mining in the application folders (such as /data/data in case of Android) may result in the leakage of sensitive data present there. This recipe is intended to provide you with details on how to read locally stored data from the Windows Phone memory.

Getting ready

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

  • WP Power Tools: Windows Phone Power Tools allow you to interact with your applications and perform activities such as storage analysis

  • The XAP of the application: We would need a few XAP files to analyse their storage

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Install Windows Phone Power tools from this link ( http://wptools.codeplex.com/releases/view/97029...