Practical Mobile Application Exploitation – eLearning

Learn how to identify, analyze, and exploit vulnerabilities in Android and iOS applications through practical mobile application security testing.

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The course focuses on reverse engineering and security analysis of Android and iOS applications. You will explore common vulnerability types, learn how they can be exploited and work with tools such as Ghidra, Frida and LLDB for security testing and vulnerability research.

The course covers both native and cross-platform applications and combines reverse engineering, dynamic analysis, traffic interception, debugging and practical exploit techniques.

What will you gain from the course?

  • Set up a test environment for mobile applications
  • Reverse engineer Android and iOS applications and system files
  • Understand common vulnerabilities in mobile applications
  • Debug Android and iOS applications
  • Bypass anti-debugging and obfuscation
  • Use Frida for dynamic analysis and runtime instrumentation
  • Carry out security analysis of applications
  • Intercept and analyse application traffic
  • Identify vulnerabilities in native and cross-platform applications
  • Work with IPC mechanisms in Android and iOS
  • Use tools such as Hopper and Ghidra
  • Analyse native code in Android libraries
  • Prepare libraries for fuzzing and vulnerability research
  • Apply techniques for securing mobile applications

 Who is the course for?

The course is suitable for penetration testers, mobile developers and security specialists who want to develop practical skills in mobile application security, security tools and exploit techniques.

The course is at a beginner to intermediate level.

Prerequisites

You should have:

  • Basic knowledge of cybersecurity and penetration testing
  • Basic knowledge of iOS and Android
  • Basic Linux skills and experience with the command line
  • An understanding of basic programming concepts in Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift, C, C++ or a similar language

Basic knowledge of ARM/AARCH64 assembly is recommended, but not required.

Course content

  • Setting up a test environment for iOS and Android
  • Introduction to mobile applications and different app technologies
  • Debugging iOS and Android applications
  • Reverse engineering with tools such as Hopper and Ghidra
  • Dynamic analysis and runtime instrumentation with Frida
  • Analysis of app data, file systems and security mechanisms
  • Traffic interception and communication analysis
  • Common vulnerabilities and practical exploit techniques
  • Anti-debugging, obfuscation and bypassing security mechanisms
  • Security in native and cross-platform applications
  • IPC mechanisms on iOS and Android
  • Fuzzing and analysis of third-party libraries
  • Measures for securing mobile applications