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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
Content preview from Mobile Application Penetration Testing

Runtime manipulation using Cycript

An essential part of our application assessment methodology is to ensure that the application is protected during runtime. This process of tracing, profiling, and debugging the execution of an app during runtime is called Instrumentation. It includes the following, but its not limited to them:

  • Boolean bypass (jailbreak/piracy detection)
  • Local authentication bypass
  • Extracting sensitive data during runtime, such as private keys, passwords, and so on
  • Accessing hidden content by force-loading view controllers
  • Malware analysis
  • Can be utilized during any custom encryption protocol

The Bypass login method

Let's now go ahead and exploit the vulnerabilities, which include local authentication bypass in the DVIA app.

Open the app ...

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ISBN: 9781785883378