You're reading from Mobile App Reverse Engineering Get started with discovering, analyzing, and exploring the internals of Android and iOS apps

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073394

Length 166 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Android

Concepts

Reverse Engineering

Author (1):

Abhinav Mishra

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Basics of Mobile App Reverse Engineering, Common Tools and Techniques, and Setting up the Environment

2. Chapter 1: Basics of Reverse Engineering – Understanding the Structure of Mobile Apps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Mobile App Reverse Engineering Environment Using Modern Tools

4. Section 2: Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Methodology and Approach

5. Chapter 3: Reverse Engineering an Android Application

6. Chapter 4: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application

7. Chapter 5: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application (Developed Using Swift)

8. Section 3: Automating Some Parts of the Reverse Engineering Process

9. Chapter 6: Open Source and Commercial Reverse Engineering Tools

10. Chapter 7: Automating the Reverse Engineering Process

11. Chapter 8: Conclusion

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Reverse Engineering an iOS Application

In comparison to Android apps, reverse engineering an iOS application is a bit more complicated. This is mainly due to the security controls that are implemented by iOS and the way Apple manages application installation and verification across all iOS devices. For example, to get the iOS App Store Package (IPA) from a device running on the application, you can't simply extract the IPA and install it on another iOS device. This is because all the applications that are installed from the Apple App Store are encrypted on the device. Here, you would be required to extract a decrypted IPA and then sign it again to be able to run it on another iOS device.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: