Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Learning iOS Penetration Testing by. Book description Secure your iOS applications and uncover hidden vulnerabilities by conducting penetration tests About This Book Achieve your goal to secure iOS devices and applications with the help of this fast paced manual Find vulnerabilities in your iOS applications and fix them with the help of this example-driven guide Acquire the key skills that will easily help you to perform iOS exploitation and forensics with greater confidence and a stronger understanding Who This Book Is For This book is for IT security professionals who want to conduct security testing of applications.
What You Will Learn Understand the basics of iOS app development, deployment, security architecture, application signing, application sandboxing, and OWASP TOP 10 for mobile Set up your lab for iOS app pentesting and identify sensitive information stored locally Perform traffic analysis of iOS devices and catch sensitive data being leaked by side channels Modify an application's behavior using runtime analysis Analyze an application's binary for security protection Acquire the knowledge required for exploiting iOS devices Learn the basics of iOS forensics In Detail iOS has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems with more than 1.
Style and approach This fast-paced and practical guide takes a step-by-step approach to penetration testing with the goal of helping you secure your iOS devices and apps quickly. Show and hide more. Introduction to iOS. Pages Blackbox Testing iOS Apps.
Automating App Testing. Swaroop Yermalkar,. Secure your iOS applications and uncover hidden vulnerabilities by conducting penetration tests About This Book Achieve your goal to secure iOS devices and applications with the help of this fast paced manual Find vulnerabilities in your iOS applications and fix them with the help of this example-driven guide Acquire the key skills that will easily help you to perform iOS exploitation and forensics with greater confidence and a stronger understanding Who This Book Is For This book is for IT security professionals who want to conduct security testing of applications.
What You Will Learn Understand the basics of iOS app development, deployment, security architecture, application signing, application sandboxing, and OWASP TOP 10 for mobile Set up your lab for iOS app pentesting and identify sensitive information stored locally Perform traffic analysis of iOS devices and catch sensitive data being leaked by side channels Modify an application's behavior using runtime analysis Analyze an application's binary for security protection Acquire the knowledge required for exploiting iOS devices Learn the basics of iOS forensics In Detail iOS has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems with more than 1.
Style and approach This fast-paced and practical guide takes a step-by-step approach to penetration testing with the goal of helping you secure your iOS devices and apps quickly.
Download e-Book Pdf. Related e-Books. Does your application have functionality to call any number? Do you prompt the user before initiating a call? Are you checking whether the caller is a logged-in user? If not, you are more likely vulnerable to security decisions via untrusted input attack. Improper session handling is managing the user's session token insecurely. Many times, the developers do not invalidate session tokens at user logout. So, the attacker can reuse these tokens for unauthorized logins.
If an attacker is able to get the victim's token, he can use his credentials to login and can assign the victim's token using proxy to log in to the victim account. Lack of binary protections is about checking protections of binary. Checking whether the application allows attackers to reverse engineer the application source code is very important in case of application handling, as the user's sensitive data should not allow the attackers to entirely decompile the application.
We can also check whether binary has implemented any protection for stack smashing attacks or implemented address space layout randomization ASLR in order to prevent memory corruption attacks. Now, we have established what is meant by an iOS security. We started from absolute basics of what is an iOS operating system and where it's used? You studied the basics of an iOS app development in order to get familiar with the development process and perform code analysis.
We are now good to start exploiting the vulnerabilities in iOS application. In the next chapter, we will do the lab setup that is needed for iOS app pentesting and will start looking for iOS vulnerabilities in the upcoming chapters. Swaroop Yermalkar is a leading security researcher and technology evangelist. He is one of the top mobile security researchers worldwide, working with Synack Inc. He has worked as domain consultant in the Security Practice Group at Persistent Systems Ltd, India, where he was responsible for the security research and assessment of web, network, Android and iOS applications.
He is acknowledged by Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Dropbox, Evernote, Simple bank App, iFixit, and many more for reporting high severity security issues in their mobile apps.
He is an active member of null, an open security community in India, and a contributor to the regular meet-up and Humla sessions at the Pune Chapter. He has organized many eminent programs and was the event head of Hackathon—a national-level hacking competition. He can be contacted at swaroopsy on Twitter. About this book iOS has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems with more than 1.
Publication date: January Publisher Packt. Pages ISBN Chapter 1. Introducing iOS Application Security.
Basics of iOS and application development. Note If you are a beginner, it is good to start with the Basics of iOS and application development section. Xcode 5. Developing your first iOS app. Running apps on iDevice. Boot ROM This is implicitly trusted It is known as a hardware root of trust This code is contained in the processor and cannot be updated or changed This also contains the Apple root certificate with authentic public key and uses it to verify that the low-level boot loader is properly signed and has not been tampered before loading.
This is the lowest level of code that can be updated It also verifies the signatures of firmware of iBoot before loading it. It verifies the signature of the iOS kernel before starting the kernel This secure boot chain also prevents any malwares that can affect at the boot level.
All applications running on iDevice are signed by Apple The developer signs the apps and submits application to Apple Apple verifies it performs some rudimentary checks, not vulnerability assessment of app If app meets with Apple requirements, Apple signs the application Finally the app is available on Apple App Store.
Weak server-side controls Insecure data storage Insufficient transport layer protection Side channel data leakage Poor authorization and authentication Broken cryptography Client-side injection Security decisions via untrusted input Improper session handling Lack of binary protections.
Weak server-side controls. Insecure data storage. Insufficient transport layer protection. Side channel data leakage. Poor authorization and authentication. Broken cryptography. Client-side injection. Security decisions via untrusted input.
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