From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
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Scanning target applications - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
Scanning target applications
- [Instructor] Now that we have set up MobSF properly let us start the analysis of Android applications. To start MobSF we will simply run a script, run.bat. If all goes according to plan you'll see a simple URL where the MobSF server is hosted. You can copy this, go to your browser, and paste it here. This brings up the MobSF interface. Setting up MobSF is the only challenging part that you'll come across while you're analyzing Android applications. Now that we have set up MobSF properly, what we need is a test application. To do that, we run a simple Google search: sieve drozer. The first link that comes up, let's go to that, and you scroll down, till you reach Resources. Here you will find sieve. Now sieve is an intentionally vulnerable password manager which you can use for testing purposes. So let's just go ahead and download this. Now all you need to do is drag and drop your APK file onto your MobSF interface.…
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