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Mobile Application Penetration Testing
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

by Vijay Kumar Velu
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Runtime manipulation using JDWP

Recent apps in the market are designed to make their own decisions during runtime. In this section, let's try and see what can be done to our target app during runtime. For this attack demonstration, we will be using an app developed by Open Security Research:

  1. Download the runtime.apk file and install it to Genymotion.
  2. The functionality of the app is that if you enter the correct PIN, it responds with the message Correct PIN entered; if the value does not match, it throws an error message Incorrect PIN please try again later, as shown in this screenshot:
    Runtime manipulation using JDWP
  3. This technique can be bypassed during runtime. We will now use ...
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ISBN: 9781785883378