Part I: The Prologue – Android rooting Background In the game, Watchdogs, the hacker ‘Aiden Pierce’ uses his cell phone alone to hack into organizations or perform MITMs (Man in the Middle Attacks). This got me thinking, what if I could build my own mobile pen-testing device and started my research on the same. After […]
It is a common technique for criminals to target gaming applications as a propagation vector for malware distribution. Recently, I observed just such a malicious Android app, which acted as an interesting information stealer and then self-destructed. I took this case to investigate further as an interesting research.
For my research, I chose to analyze a popular Android application for malwares. But why select a Russian version? Well, it made a compelling case study from analysis perspective that I later found out during my research. The application I selected was popular game called FruitNinja downloaded from Russian Fake Android Store (Figure 1). Figure […]
Overview I had to do the risk analysis of the Android 2.2 – Froyo based appliance and check for any security flaws exist in it before the XYZ Ltd. (just the example) company could launch that product in the market. Background How I get connected to appliance At start of my task I first assign […]
