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.
publication date
2022-05-27
what you will learn
Understand how to set up an environment to perform reverse engineering
Discover how Android and iOS application packages are built
Reverse engineer Android applications and understand their internals
Reverse engineer iOS applications built using Objective C and Swift programming
Understand real-world case studies of reverse engineering
Automate reverse engineering to discover low-hanging vulnerabilities
Understand reverse engineering and how its defense techniques are used in mobile applications
key features
Learn the skills required to reverse engineer mobile applications * Understand the internals of iOS and Android application binaries * Explore modern reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra, Radare2, Hopper, and more
approach
In order to find critical security issues during a mobile application penetration test or to understand the hidden behavior of malware, reverse engineering skills are of great importance. This book takes the readers around the basics of how android & iOS applications are created, and how to reverse engineer that. You will first learn about setting up an isolated virtual environment, with the tools required. Then, will understand the internals of Android and iOS apps, while discussing the case studies and also understanding the approach to find security issues.
audience
This book is for cybersecurity professionals, security analysts, mobile application security enthusiasts, and penetration testers interested in understanding the internals of iOS and Android apps through reverse engineering. Basic knowledge of reverse engineering as well as an understanding of mobile operating systems like iOS and Android and how mobile applications work on them are required.
short description
This book will focus right from scratch on how to set up an environment and perform reverse engineering on iOS and Android mobile apps. The book takes you on a journey of exploring the internals of mobile apps, how they are built, and how to take each piece apart while trying to understand the internal working of the apps.
subtitle
Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps
keywords
reverse engineering, Android, iOS, automation, mobile application, penetration testing, Ghidra, Swift
Product ISBN
9781801073394
