Overview

Mobile apps fail in ways web apps don’t — secrets baked into the binary, weak certificate pinning, local storage that assumes the device is trustworthy. We reverse-engineer the APK or IPA to see what’s exposed before a single request is sent.

Then we move to runtime: instrumenting the app to bypass client-side protections and watch its real traffic, followed by the same rigorous testing we’d apply to any backend API.

What’s included

  • Static analysis of the compiled app for hardcoded secrets & insecure storage
  • Certificate pinning & root/jailbreak detection bypass testing
  • Runtime instrumentation to observe and manipulate live app behaviour
  • Full testing of backend APIs the app depends on
root@bytesencrypt: mobile-app-vapt
$apktool d target.apk
> hardcoded API key found in strings.xml
$frida -f com.target.app -l bypass-pinning.js
> certificate pinning bypassed
> intercepting live traffic...
 

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