Mobile App Reverse Engineering: Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps

by Abhinav Mishra

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801074902
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/27/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Abhinav Mishra is the founder and director of Enciphers, a cybersecurity consulting and training company. Abhinav has over a decade of extensive experience in finding and fixing security issues in web, mobile, and infrastructure applications. He has performed penetration tests on more than 500 mobile applications and has discovered thousands of critical vulnerabilities. Abhinav completed his engineering degree in 2011 and since then has been involved in penetration testing and securing applications and infrastructure. Prior to founding Enciphers, Abhinav worked with Fortune 500 and giant tech companies as part of their security teams. In his spare time, he is a traveler, adventure seeker, and drone hobbyist.