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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Mobile security has come a long way over the last few years. It has transitioned from "should it be done?" to "it must be done!"Alongside the growing number of devises and applications, there is also a growth in the volume of Personally identifiable information (PII), Financial Data, and much more. This data needs to be secured. This is why Pen-testing is so important to modern application developers. You need to know how to secure user data, and find vulnerabilities and loopholes in your application that might lead to security breaches. This book gives you the necessary skills to security test your mobile applications as a beginner, developer, or security practitioner. You'll start by discovering the internal components of an Android and an iOS application. Moving ahead, you'll understand the inter-process working of these applications. Then you'll set up a test environment for this application using various tools to identify the loopholes and vulnerabilities in the structure of the applications. Finally, after collecting all information about these security loop holes, we'll start securing our applications from these threats.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

iOS security tools


Although there are plenty of assessment tools available on the Internet, in this section, we will explore the important tools that suffice the requirement of assessing known and unknown vulnerabilities. All the security tools in this section will work only on a jailbroken device.

oTool

As we discussed in the Application code signing section in Chapter 2, Snooping Around the Architecture, the apps in the Apple store must be signed. In order to decrypt these apps to perform the binary analysis, we would require oTool. Unlike unsigned apps, these can be installed on jailbroken devices only.

oTool is extensively used during manual decryption to identify relevant misconfiguration in the way the app is packaged and installed on the device. This tool shares the relevant libraries to inspect any Mach-O binary.

All iOS 8 and higher versions of the applications are installed in the /private/var/mobile/Containers/Bundle/Application/ folder. The following code snippet displays the architectures...