Mobile Application Penetration Testing Services
Our mobile app penetration testing service are designed to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities before it’s too late. Mobile applications have changed the way we work and communicate. Our tailored approach checks for flaws or exploits that could lead to your data being compromised.
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What is mobile application penetration testing?
A mobile app pen testing is performed to identify any mobile application vulnerabilities that could lead to data loss. This security assessment, also known as mobile application security testing, is dynamic in nature, meaning it is conducted while the application is functioning.
Common mobile security flaws during
iOS and Android app pentesting
- Weak Server Side Controls are primary target because any communication outside the mobile devices occurs via server.
- Insecure Data Storage as sometimes developers depend upon the client storage for data. This is commonly found in our mobile application penetration testing services.
- Transport Layer Protection includes encrypted routes through which the data is transferred/received to/from the server.
- A threat actor who can easily reverse the application code to find flaws that can be exploited, or injecting malware is a serious concern. Binary Protection is important to secure the mobile applications installed on phones.
- Data Leakage due to application bugs, residual data on the device or lack of secure coding practices.
Benefits ofmobile app penetration testing services
Our mobile app pen testing assesses real-world mobile app security vulnerabilities in a number of ways. One common approach is to reverse engineer the app to understand how it works and identify any potential vulnerabilities. Another approach is to analyze the app’s traffic to see if there are any suspicious or untrusted requests being made. Finally, consider running a static analysis tool on the code to identify any potential issues.
By identifying potential security vulnerabilities in the mobile app design, our mobile application pentesting service can help to validate secure design best practices. For example, it helps to identify if any sensitive data is being stored insecurely on the device, if authentication methods are effective and if there are any loopholes that could be exploited by a malicious user.
The main benefit of mobile app pen testing is the increased flexibility and productivity it offers users. With this service, businesses can easily assess the security of their hybrid mobile apps and identify potential vulnerabilities. This helps them to safeguard their data and improve the overall mobile app security of their operations.
By using our mobile pen testing service, organisations can ensure that their authentication, authorisation, and encryption mechanisms are functioning properly. It simulate an attacker’s actions, allowing companies to test the security of their mobile apps and systems in a controlled environment.
A mobile pen test is an essential security measure to find and fix potential vulnerabilities in mobile apps and devices. By identifying weaknesses and improving security, organisations can avoid disastrous data breaches that could jeopardise customer information or Damage corporate reputation.
There are many compliance frameworks out there, each with their own specific requirements. Our mobile application security testing can help support your organisation’s compliance with mobile security framework such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
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Types of Mobile Pentesting
Mobile App Pen Testing
A mobile application penetration test aims to identify flaws that would avoid data leakage or theft. Penetration testing for mobile applications ensures that different phases such as static analysis, network traffic analysis, authentication architectures, tampering, storage mechanisms, APIs are reviewed thoroughly.
Secure Code Review
Secure Code review is the process of manually reviewing the mobile application source code that would highlight issues missed during a black box pentest. A review is a final go-ahead for an application just before the release. This assures that the code is secure and all dependencies are functioning as intended.
Mobile Device Security Review
Mobile application security assessment includes areas such as the management of the device, policies implemented, device configuration, and the mobile apps used on the device. Based on whether BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), or company owned device, reviews are performed to identify gaps linked with security concerns.
OWASP Top 10 Mobile Pentesting Vulnerabilities
Any violation of published guidelines or functionality misuse such as excessive permissions usage. It may include platform permissions, TouchID misuse, keychain secrets or other mobile OS features specific to an iOS device or android apps.
Data stored insecurely includes examples such as SQL databases, log files, binary data stores, cookies, SD card, cloud synched. This could also relate to unintended data leakage vulnerabilities from the operating system, frameworks, hardware or rooted/jailbroken devices.
Anything related to insecure data transmission between two points. This data transmission could encompass mobile to mobile communications and application to server communications and data encryption risks related to technologies in use.
Authentication vulnerabilities are one of the critical attack vectors for a cyber criminal. This phase includes assessing authentication mechanism, transmission channels, nature of input, insecure configurations, weak credentials & bypass attempts.
Insecure use of cryptography is common in mobile applications leveraging encryption. Business impact of such issues could lead to privacy violations, information theft, IP theft or reputational implications.
Whether it is possible to access unauthorised functionality by exploiting Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities, hidden endpoints.
Insecure coding practices cause security impacts where application code and the device side of mobile application is affected.
Whether an application performs code integrity checks to prevent code tampering and modifying at an attackers’ will. Mobile applications developed for certain business verticals may have severe implications of code modification such as in gaming sector, compared to others.
Due to the inherent nature of the code, most applications can be reverse-engineered. Although this helps an attacker to understand the underlying code, an application must ensure various defences to avoid IP theft or allow exploitations of any vulnerabilities.
Any hidden or undocumented features that can be identified and exploited to gain access to underlying systems hosting vulnerable code.
Top Mobile Security Risks
- MobSF is a mobile security framework (open source framework) used for android pen testing and malware analysis
- Burp Suite
- Charles Proxy
- Drozer
- Frida
- Clutch
- greenDAO Studio
- iNalyzer
- Introspy-Android
- Jad Decompiler
Security assessments of mobile applications provides you an accurate view of risks affecting your mobile applications, supporting APIs that may be common to web applications or even the backend issues. This helps to assess, analyse and mitigate identified vulnerabilities.
Why choose Cyphere as your penetration testing service provider?
Excellent people to work with.
Very good knowledge of requirement and give us correct findings with excellent remedy to improve our security for our B2B portal site.
Harman was great, really knowledgeable
Harman was great, really knowledgeable, helpful and on hand to answer any questions. The final report was very clear providing the technical information in an easy to read format which could be understood by the leaders of the business.
My experience of the team was 5 star.
They were so helpful, and their technical delivery and client communication were excellent.
Extremely satisfied
Extremely satisfied with approach, speed and end results. Thanks.
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