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IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify vulnerabilities and secure your smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280571
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Guzman Aaron Guzman
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. IoT Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. IoT Threat Modeling 3. Analyzing and Exploiting Firmware 4. Exploitation of Embedded Web Applications 5. Exploiting IoT Mobile Applications 6. IoT Device Hacking 7. Radio Hacking 8. Firmware Security Best Practices 9. Mobile Security Best Practices 10. Securing Hardware 11. Advanced IoT Exploitation and Security Automation

Using MobSF for static analysis


Given that the application binaries for Android and iOS have been obtained, we can perform further analysis using automated techniques. A great open source Python tool that can be leveraged for both Android and iOS is the Mobile Security Framework (MobSF). There are several features and capabilities MobSF can automate for us, particularly for Android apps. This recipe will demonstrate MobSF's automated static analysis features for both Android and iOS. Static analysis typically requires access to source code, however, decompiling Android and iOS applications can give us a form of pseudocode close to the original source.

Getting ready

MobSF is included in the accompanied virtual machine with version 0.9.5.2 beta. MobSF is constantly being updated and can be downloaded via https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF. Ensure all dependencies have been installed as listed in MobSF's documentation.

Ensure target APKs and decrypted iOS IPA applications...

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