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Hacking Android

By : Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

By: Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Overview of this book

With the mass explosion of Android mobile phones in the world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Security of Android devices is a broad subject that should be part of our everyday lives to defend against ever-growing smartphone attacks. Everyone, starting with end users all the way up to developers and security professionals should care about android security. Hacking Android is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with Android security. You’ll begin your journey at the absolute basics, and then will slowly gear up to the concepts of Android rooting, application security assessments, malware, infecting APK files, and fuzzing. On this journey you’ll get to grips with various tools and techniques that can be used in your everyday pentests. You’ll gain the skills necessary to perform Android application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing and will create an Android pentesting lab.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hacking Android
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automated tools


This book is focused more on concepts rather than tools. However, automated tools often save us some time during penetration tests. The following are some of the most common automated tools that are available for automated assessments of Android applications.

Drozer and Quark are two different tools that may come in handy during your Android app assessments.

We will discuss many techniques such as hooking into application processes and performing runtime manipulations, reverse engineering, manually discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, and so on. However, this section focuses on using automated tools such as Drozer and Quark in order to get you started with the assessments.

Drozer

Drozer is a framework for Android security assessments developed by MWR labs. As of writing this book, Drozer is one of the best tools available for Android Security Assessments. According to their official documentation, "Drozer allows you to assume the role of an Android app and to interact...