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

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

Abhinav Mishra

Ebook
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.
  • 1. Basics of Reverse Engineering – Understanding the Structure of Mobile Apps
  • 2. Setting Up a Mobile App Reverse Engineering Environment Using Modern Tools
  • 3. Reverse Engineering an Android Application
  • 4. Reverse Engineering an iOS Application
  • 5. Reverse Engineering an iOS Application (Developed Using Swift)
  • 6. Open Source and Commercial Reverse Engineering Tools
  • 7. Automating the Reverse Engineering Process
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Title: Mobile App Reverse Engineering. Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps
  • Author: Abhinav Mishra
  • Original title: Mobile App Reverse Engineering. Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps
  • ISBN: 9781801074902, 9781801074902
  • Date of issue: 2022-05-27
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_2t6a
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing