Book Image

Hacking Android

By : Mohammed A. Imran, Rao Kotipalli
Book Image

Hacking Android

By: Mohammed A. Imran, 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 (12 chapters)
11
Index

Introduction to Cydia Substrate


Cydia Substrate is a tool for runtime hooking and modification of Android apps by injecting into the app process on rooted devices. This was formerly known as Mobile Substrate, which was originally released for iOS devices. Cydia Substrate is the base for most of the runtime manipulation tools that are available. We can develop third party add-ons that work using Cydia Substrate. These are known as extensions. The next section shows a tool called Introspy, which is a popular Cydia Substrate extension for runtime monitoring and analysis of Android apps. Cydia Substrate is available on the Google Play Store and you can install it from the following link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saurik.substrate

Once you install it, Cydia Substrate's home screen will come up as in the following figure if you launch the application.

Tap on the Link Substrate Files button and you should see the following activity:

Upon the first installation of Cydia Substrate...