1. What exactly is a “Mobile App penetration test” assessment?
A “Mobile App penetration test” is usually the term used to describe a software assurance testing activity for the mobile apps developed by a security firm. There are different approaches when conducting mobile app penetration testing from the traditional or black-box perspective.
2. What is the mobile app assessment like?
The process of mobile app assessments typically starts with the initial engagement of one of the company’s technical employees who identifies and creates an initial app to be checked.
While the user is waiting for the security assessment, another engineer from the company is assigned to the testing. After the initial assessment, they report back and the second engineer creates a second, customized version of the mobile app and assesses it.
Mobile App Assessments are usually iterative and repeat several times to assess app’s vulnerability.
Description of mobile apps
They are usually run on target devices with real network connections, such as a 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi connection. Mobile applications penetration tests are usually carried out via mobile devices (iOS and Android devices) from the field. Mobile device’s information is being scanned and analyzed against a large number of known vulnerabilities and attacks.
The process may involve the following phases:
- Fetching and extracting test-data from real-world servers and analyzing it.
- Analyzing the mobile app, extracting data from it.
- Assessing mobile applications based on real vulnerabilities known from the company’s own database.
- If the test-case is ready, performing a manual attack on the mobile app itself, by searching via information extracted from the application.
- Analyzing the extracted data, comparing it with data extracted from a real mobile app.
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