Why Mobile Application Pentesting is Essential?
Modern businesses and public organizations have increasingly adopted mobile apps for a wide range of purposes, including finance and healthcare. However, ensuring the security of these platforms is becoming a greater challenge, as new vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered. Our team of industry-leading researchers and security engineers is proficient in both iPhone and Android testing, conducting thorough assessments of local, on-device security issues, back-end web services, and the APIs that link them.
Cyber Comabt
3/1/20232 min read
Mobile Application Penetration Testing In A Nutshell
Mobile application penetration testing involves a simulated hacking attempt against a mobile application, whether it's on Android, Windows, or iOS. The objective of this test is to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in the application and the way it transfers data to other devices. As mobile device security becomes an increasingly critical area of research, mobile device security focuses on aspects such as Mobile Device Management (MDM), device-level security, storage security, transport layer security, and mobile device application security. Penetration testing is a professional security technique that emulates a threat by acting on the attack surface with one or more attack vectors, which together comprise an "attack scenario."
Performing Penetration Testing
To perform a mobile application penetration test, you should follow these steps:
Map the application: Start by running the application on emulators and proxies from the victim's mobile device. This will provide insight into the application and its interaction with the backend. Conduct tests to determine whether any unauthorized users can access sensitive content.
Attack the application: Proceed to attack the victim's mobile application by directly attacking the code via the network. Many applications accept input from the backend and modify their behavior, which can affect the application's functionality.
Examine the results: After completing the tests, examine the results to determine the functionality and potential vulnerabilities of the application and the technology used. Access the application to detect vulnerabilities and exploit them.
By following these steps, you can perform a thorough mobile application penetration test and identify potential security issues. It is important to work with a professional penetration testing team to ensure that the testing is performed accurately and effectively.
What You Can Expect from Our Mobile Penetration Testing Service?
Our mobile penetration testing service offers deep support for both iOS and Android platforms, backed by our extensive experience and knowledge of the unique security challenges and vulnerabilities of each architecture. This enables us to customize assessments to specific concerns, such as reverse-engineering an iOS app or malware threats to an Android app. We simulate multiple attack vectors and risks, including insecure storage, stolen device risk, mobile malware attacks, and both authenticated and unauthenticated app users. Additionally, we can provide custom scenarios to map enterprise conditions for apps residing on in-house mobile devices.
Our security experts integrate both static and dynamic analysis to test each mobile app at rest and during runtime, identifying all vulnerabilities through a deep-dive methodology that targets local vulnerabilities as well, such as insecure storage of credentials, Android backups including sensitive app data, and more. We also offer full source code review of the application, enabling our iOS and Android experts to decompile or reverse-engineer the apps themselves and identify even deeply buried vulnerabilities. With our comprehensive approach to mobile application penetration testing, you can expect a thorough assessment of your mobile app's security posture and actionable recommendations to mitigate vulnerabilities.
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