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Mobile App Reverse Engineering

By : Abhinav Mishra
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Book Image

Mobile App Reverse Engineering

5 (1)
By: Abhinav Mishra

Overview of this book

Mobile App Reverse Engineering is a practical guide focused on helping cybersecurity professionals scale up their mobile security skills. With the IT world’s evolution in mobile operating systems, cybercriminals are increasingly focusing their efforts on mobile devices. This book enables you to keep up by discovering security issues through reverse engineering of mobile apps. This book starts with the basics of reverse engineering and teaches you how to set up an isolated virtual machine environment to perform reverse engineering. You’ll then learn about modern tools such as Ghidra and Radare2 to perform reverse engineering on mobile apps as well as understand how Android and iOS apps are developed. Next, you’ll explore different ways to reverse engineer some sample mobile apps developed for this book. As you advance, you’ll learn how reverse engineering can help in penetration testing of Android and iOS apps with the help of case studies. The concluding chapters will show you how to automate the process of reverse engineering and analyzing binaries to find low-hanging security issues. By the end of this reverse engineering book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to be able to reverse engineer Android and iOS apps and streamline the reverse engineering process with confidence.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Basics of Mobile App Reverse Engineering, Common Tools and Techniques, and Setting up the Environment
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Section 2: Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Methodology and Approach
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Section 3: Automating Some Parts of the Reverse Engineering Process

Section 2: Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Methodology and Approach

This section covers Android and iOS apps one by one in separate chapters to look into how those apps are developed, exploring the internals of the apps and the process to reverse engineer them. This section covers Android apps, iOS apps built using Objective-C, and iOS apps built using Swift, ranging from unzipping application packages to extracting content, as well as binaries. We will look into the process of how to reverse engineer an application's binary and understand the workings of an application(s).

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Reverse Engineering an Android Application
  • Chapter 4, Reverse Engineering an iOS Application
  • Chapter 5, Reverse Engineering an iOS Application (Developed Using Swift)