Android hacker's handbook / Joshua J Drake [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drake, Joshua J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Android (Electronic resource).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (577 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Indiana : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing attacks on the Android OS As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture, the authors examine how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for v

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 Looking at the Ecosystem; Understanding Android's Roots; Company History; Version History; Examining the Device Pool; Open Source, Mostly; Understanding Android Stakeholders; Google; Hardware Vendors; Carriers; Developers; Users; Grasping Ecosystem Complexities; Fragmentation; Compatibility; Update Issues; Security versus Openness; Public Disclosures; Summary; Chapter 2 Android Security Design and Architecture; Understanding Android System Architecture; Understanding Security Boundaries and Enforcement; Android's Sandbox; Android Permissions

Looking Closer at the LayersAndroid Applications; The Android Framework; The Dalvik Virtual Machine; User-Space Native Code; The Kernel; Complex Security, Complex Exploits; Summary; Chapter 3 Rooting Your Device; Understanding the Partition Layout; Determining the Partition Layout; Understanding the Boot Process; Accessing Download Mode; Locked and Unlocked Boot Loaders; Stock and Custom Recovery Images; Rooting with an Unlocked Boot Loader; Rooting with a Locked Boot Loader; Gaining Root on a Booted System; NAND Locks, Temporary Root, and Permanent Root; Persisting a Soft Root

History of Known AttacksKernel: Wunderbar/asroot; Recovery: Volez; Udev: Exploid; Adbd: RageAgainstTheCage; Zygote: Zimperlich and Zysploit; Ashmem: KillingInTheNameOf and psneuter; Vold: GingerBreak; PowerVR: levitator; Libsysutils: zergRush; Kernel: mempodroid; File Permission and Symbolic Link-Related Attacks; Adb Restore Race Condition; Exynos4: exynos-abuse; Diag: lit / diaggetroot; Summary; Chapter 4 Reviewing Application Security; Common Issues; App Permission Issues; Insecure Transmission of Sensitive Data; Insecure Data Storage; Information Leakage Through Logs

Unsecured IPC EndpointsCase Study: Mobile Security App; Profiling; Static Analysis; Dynamic Analysis; Attack; Case Study: SIP Client; Enter Drozer; Discovery; Snarfing; Injection; Summary; Chapter 5 Understanding Android's Attack Surface; An Attack Terminology Primer; Attack Vectors; Attack Surfaces; Classifying Attack Surfaces; Surface Properties; Classification Decisions; Remote Attack Surfaces; Networking Concepts; Networking Stacks; Exposed Network Services; Mobile Technologies; Client-side Attack Surface; Google Infrastructure; Physical Adjacency; Wireless Communications

Other TechnologiesLocal Attack Surfaces; Exploring the File System; Finding Other Local Attack Surfaces; Physical Attack Surfaces; Dismantling Devices; USB; Other Physical Attack Surfaces; Third-Party Modifications; Summary; Chapter 6 Finding Vulnerabilities with Fuzz Testing; Fuzzing Background; Identifying a Target; Crafting Malformed Inputs; Processing Inputs; Monitoring Results; Fuzzing on Android; Fuzzing Broadcast Receivers; Identifying a Target; Generating Inputs; Delivering Inputs; Monitoring Testing; Fuzzing Chrome for Android; Selecting a Technology to Target; Generating Inputs

Processing Inputs

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118922255

1118922255

9781118608616

1118608615

OCLC:

875820167