Android App Hacking – Black Belt Edition

Android App Hacking – Black Belt Edition, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.73, with 139 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 526 reviews, and has 4550 subscribers.

You will learn about Deep understanding of the android app structure How to exploit Activities, BroadcastReceiver and ContentProvider (SQL injection & Path Traversal) Bypassing Rooting Detection (SMALI and FRIDA) Bypassing Certificate Pinning (SMALI and FRIDA) Performing a man-in-the-middle attack Analyzing-/ Manipulating the network traffic of a mobile app Creating call- and flow graphs to reverse engineer strong obfuscated apps Manipulating Java and C/C++ methods (FRIDA & SMALI) Reading- / Writing SMALI code Injecting own (custom) code into existing applications Deep understanding of the android permission model Modifying games (infinite lives, high score, invisble, invincible) – Writing a trainer Analzying bluetooth low energy connections Dealing with different encryption types (e.g. AES) Deep- / Web- / App-Links (Bug Bounty) Reversing native libraries with Ghidra Debugging Java code Debugging SMALI code (live – with interpreter) Webvies & JavaScriptInterfaces XSS / SQL Injection Exploitation This course is ideal for individuals who are Security Analyst / Ethical Hacker or Android App Developer or Bug Bounty Hunter or Everyone who likes to manipulate android apps / games 🙂 It is particularly useful for Security Analyst / Ethical Hacker or Android App Developer or Bug Bounty Hunter or Everyone who likes to manipulate android apps / games :).

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Summary

Title: Android App Hacking – Black Belt Edition

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.73

Number of Lectures: 139

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 138

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 150

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 149

Original Price: $64.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Deep understanding of the android app structure
How to exploit Activities, BroadcastReceiver and ContentProvider (SQL injection & Path Traversal)
Bypassing Rooting Detection (SMALI and FRIDA)
Bypassing Certificate Pinning (SMALI and FRIDA)
Performing a man-in-the-middle attack
Analyzing-/ Manipulating the network traffic of a mobile app
Creating call- and flow graphs to reverse engineer strong obfuscated apps
Manipulating Java and C/C++ methods (FRIDA & SMALI)
Reading- / Writing SMALI code
Injecting own (custom) code into existing applications
Deep understanding of the android permission model
Modifying games (infinite lives, high score, invisble, invincible) – Writing a trainer
Analzying bluetooth low energy connections
Dealing with different encryption types (e.g. AES)
Deep- / Web- / App-Links (Bug Bounty)
Reversing native libraries with Ghidra
Debugging Java code
Debugging SMALI code (live – with interpreter)
Webvies & JavaScriptInterfaces
XSS / SQL Injection Exploitation

Who Should Attend

Security Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Android App Developer
Bug Bounty Hunter
Everyone who likes to manipulate android apps / games 🙂

Target Audiences

Security Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Android App Developer
Bug Bounty Hunter
Everyone who likes to manipulate android apps / games 🙂

In this course you will learn absolutely everything about android app hacking. This course teaches you the ethical principles and enables you to become the top expert of your company regarding to app security. We learn really complex attacks in the most funny way that’s possible, by hacking a mobile game.

Legal note:

The game we are going to hack is licensed under the GNU GPL, which means, we are allowed to perform such modifications. Hacking apps without having the permission of the author is strongly forbidden! The things you learn are related to security research. I am teaching you all of this in a legal and ethical way.

Course – Structure:

In the installation chapter we will analyze different smartphone setups, their strength and their weaknesses. We unlock our device and use certain features to already start hacking our first apps. We will learn how to analyze bluetooth low energy connections and get familiar with the Android Debug Bridge (ADB).

We move on to the android app structure. Here we gain a rock solid understanding about the key components of an android app. We will analyze the AndroidManifest.xml and learn how to exploit activities, broadcast receiver and content provider. We will write our own small apps to exploit SQL injections and path traversals.

Afterwards we take a deep dive into reverse engineering. We will learn how to decompile an android app and reconstruct the Java code. We will have a look at different decompilers and create flow- and call graphs to deal with highly obfuscated apps. Finally a nice application is waiting for us to practice all the things we have learned so far.

Then we have the treasure of this course, the SMALI chapter. SMALI is like an assembly language of an android application and gives us unlimited power in hacking them. We practice our skills by modifying our mobile game to have infinite lives, become invisible or invincible. We add multiple player shots, manipulate the fire rate and many more.

In the man-in-the-middle chapter we will learn how to analyze the network traffic of a mobile app. We will gain an understanding about HTTPS and how to analyze these connections. We will learn how certificate pinning works and bypass several different types of it.

The last thing that is missing is FRIDA, which is an amazing framework to perform runtime manipulations within an app. We will hook into the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) to modify a dice application. We will learn how to scan the memory for certain instances and how to interact with the UI thread of an app. We will create new objects and practice all of this by writing our own trainer for a gaming application. The cherry on top will be the analysis of a native c function with Ghidra and the manipulation and modification with FRIDA.

After getting through all these chapters you will be the top expert in android app security of your company. Therefore, what you are wainting for? 🙂

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Installation and Setup

Lecture 1: Setup – Theory

Lecture 2: Installation (System & Android Studio)

Lecture 3: Emulator – Installation

Lecture 4: Emulator – Usage (Secret Features)

Lecture 5: Androidx86 Virtual Machine – Setup

Lecture 6: Developer Options

Lecture 7: Developer Options – Secrets ( Game Hacking )

Lecture 8: Developer Options – Bluetooth Low Energy Hacking

Lecture 9: Bluetooth Low Energy – Furby App Hacking

Lecture 10: Android Debug Bridge – Theory

Lecture 11: Android Debug Bridge (ADB) – HandsOn (White – Belt)

Lecture 12: Scrcpy for Android version 14

Chapter 2: App Structure

Lecture 1: Filestructure of an APK

Lecture 2: Dalvik / Dex

Lecture 3: Classes.dex

Lecture 4: Decompiling – Preperation

Lecture 5: Decompiling – HandsOn

Lecture 6: AndroidManifest.xml

Lecture 7: App – Permissions

Lecture 8: Activities

Lecture 9: Activities – Hacking

Lecture 10: Activity – Bonus (Bypassing Login – Own Application)

Lecture 11: Intents

Lecture 12: Intents – Examples

Lecture 13: DeepLinks (Theory – 2024)

Lecture 14: DeepLinks (Examples – 2024)

Lecture 15: BroadcastReceiver

Lecture 16: BroadcastReceiver – Hacking (Alarm App)

Lecture 17: BroadcastReceiver – Hacking via own App

Lecture 18: Services

Lecture 19: ContentProvider

Lecture 20: ContentProvider – SQL Injection

Lecture 21: ContentProvider – Database Attacks (SQLi – Permission / Bypass)

Lecture 22: ContentProvider – PathTraversal Attack

Lecture 23: Application Signing

Lecture 24: Application Signing – Deep Dive

Lecture 25: BlueBox Master Key Vulnerability (Signing)

Chapter 3: Reverse Engineering Android Apps

Lecture 1: Dex2Jar

Lecture 2: Jadx-Gui

Lecture 3: Jadx-Gui HandsOn

Lecture 4: Secret Super Weapon

Lecture 5: Reversing Apps

Lecture 6: Creating a CallGraph (CG)

Lecture 7: Creating a FlowGraph (FG)

Lecture 8: Challenge – Intro

Lecture 9: Challenge – Hacking Activities

Lecture 10: Challenge – Hacking Content Provider

Lecture 11: Challenge – Hacking BroadCast Receiver

Lecture 12: Challenge – Password (Decryption)

Chapter 4: Smali

Lecture 1: Recap

Lecture 2: Smali – Introduction

Lecture 3: Smali – Patching

Lecture 4: Challenge – Solution

Lecture 5: Registers

Lecture 6: Types

Lecture 7: P0 – Register

Lecture 8: Dalvik Opcodes

Lecture 9: Smali File Structure

Lecture 10: Practice – Smali

Lecture 11: Practice – Solution

Lecture 12: Orange Belt – Intro

Lecture 13: Orange Belt – Solution

Lecture 14: IF – Intro

Lecture 15: IF / ELSE / GOTO

Lecture 16: IF / ELSE / GOTO – Code Analysis

Lecture 17: IF / ELSE / GOTO – Blocks

Lecture 18: IF / ELSE / GOTO – Practice

Lecture 19: Smali Patching – Flipping the logic

Lecture 20: Smali Patching – Deleting Code

Lecture 21: Smali Patching – Jump Instructions

Lecture 22: Rooting Detection (bypass) – Solution

Lecture 23: Rooting Detection – Solution2 (Bonus)

Lecture 24: Smali – Objects and Methods

Lecture 25: Smali – Static Methods

Lecture 26: Smali – Hello World (Yes, this late)

Lecture 27: Printing out secrets – System.out (Written in Smali)

Lecture 28: Patching XOR encryption

Lecture 29: One challenge to recap all – Intro

Lecture 30: One challenge to recap all – Part 1

Lecture 31: One challenge to recap all – Part 2

Lecture 32: One challenge to recap all – Part 3

Lecture 33: One challenge to recap all – Solution

Lecture 34: Blue Belt – Challenge (Intro)

Lecture 35: Blue Belt – Challenge (Hint)

Lecture 36: Blue Belt – Challenge (Solution)

Lecture 37: Debugging Android Applications

Lecture 38: SMALI Debugging on Steroids

Instructors

Roman Stuehler
Me

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1 stars: 5 votes
2 stars: 4 votes
3 stars: 17 votes
4 stars: 129 votes
5 stars: 371 votes

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