Android Pentesting: Unleashed Exploring Mobile Vulnerabilities
Greetings, fellow tech warriors! This time I came with Android Pentesting. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or an eager learner, Android pentesting is an essential skill in safeguarding the digital world. We’ll focus on static and dynamic analysis, hitting you with real-world vulnerabilities. Let’s dive in responsibly and professionally.
Tools:
Android Studio
Genymotion
JADX
JD-GUI
Frida
Objection
Drozer
Burp Suite 💜
Dex2jar
Appie
MobSF
Exploring “BugBazaar”
BugBazaar is a goldmine for security enthusiasts, offering over 30 real-world inspired challenges. These challenges are designed to be both engaging and educational, encouraging critical and creative thinking. From uncovering weak points to executing exploits, every challenge simulates real-world scenarios, providing invaluable insights into the impact of security flaws on users and organizations. Whether you’re analyzing insecure storage, Unencrypted database, or SQL Injection, BugBazaar helps sharpen your skills and prepares you for real-world pentesting.
Rather than delve into the basics — like Android architecture, file structures, or component lifecycles, Content providers, Broadcast receivers, Deeplinks, URL schemes — this article takes you straight into the exploitation. For those foundational details, there are plenty of excellent resources and books are available (i.e. Allsafe, DIVA, Insecure Bank, AndroGoat, etc.). Instead, I’ll share my hands-on experience exploiting vulnerabilities in “BugBazaar”, an intentionally vulnerable Android app developed by Payatu.
If you’re curious to see how I solved these challenges, I’ve documented almost as GitHub repo. Breakdown of some of exploit and the exact steps to reproduce them. I’ll add other solutions as soon as posible. You can find everything on my GitHub repo:
https://github.com/dipakpanchal05/BugBazaar
Remember,
Stay tuned, Happy hunting !!!
