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Course Name Advanced Android Security and Penetration Testing
Course Code 21SN644
Program M. Tech. in Cyber Security Systems & Networks
Credits 3

Overview

Introduction to Android Authentication Architecture, Network communication, Cryptography. Reverse Engineering – Assets and resources, Application mapping with Manifest, Resources. Understanding vulnerabilities – Data Storage (logging sensitive data, insecure file management), Local databases (Encryption, Hashing), External Storage, Authentication (Validation and Authorization), Network API (SSL Certificates, HTTPS), Platform API, Exported Activities, Browsable/Custom Intents, Username enumeration, Broken Cryptography, Insecure Key Management. Traffic Analysis and interpretation. Reverse Engineering and Analyzing Native Libraries. Introduction and hands-on of tools for pentesting – frida, objection, runtime mobile security, MobSF, Adhirit, drozer, burpsuite etc, Identification and Analysis of Android Malware and Spyware. Penetration Test report writing.

TEXT BOOKS/REFERENCES

1. Aditya Gupta, “Learning Pentesting for Android Devices”
2. Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse, “The Mobile Application Hacker’s Handbook”, ISBN: 978-1-118-95850-6, February 2015

Course Outcomes

  • CO1: Understand how to perform dynamic analysis and application execution behavior(PSO4,PSO2)
  • CO2: Understanding attack vectors and recent attacks on mobile platform (PSO2,PSO3)
  • CO3: Learn to perform penetration testing on Android applications (PSO3,PSO4)
  • CO4:Understanding packers and obfuscation techniques used in Malware/Spyware/Ransomware (PSO2, PSO4)

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