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Reverse Engineering

Saying Goodbye to my Favorite 5 Minute P1

In this post, I’m going to reveal the fastest, easiest P1 that I’ve ever reported – multiple times! It’s the sort of oversight that seems so simple to avoid, but surprisingly, it was pervasive across apps both with and without Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 5 years5 years ago
Tools

BurpParamFlagger: Identifying Possible SSRF/LFI Insertion Points

I’ve been very busy these past few months, leaving little time to hack. I’m very glad to be back at it. I decided to write my first Burp extension—since it seems to be working quite nicely for me, I thought Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 4 years4 years ago
Reverse Engineering

The Top 5 Most Common Mobile App Security Flaws

Whether you’re a pentester looking to gain some experience in mobile hacking or a developer aiming to build secure apps, familiarizing yourself with some of the common security mistakes developers make will serve you well. I’ve listed and summarized here Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 5 years5 years ago
Tools

Discover Blind Vulnerabilities with DNSObserver: an Out-of-Band DNS Monitor

I’ve been working on a few small projects while learning Go, and this one turned out to be useful enough that I thought I’d go ahead and publish it. For the first time, this post is not about iOS! DNSObserver Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 5 years5 years ago
Penetration Testing

Exploiting SSL Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps

This post is an overview of a mobile app MitM vulnerability I’ve found several times in the real world. I’ll explain how an attacker can exploit a vulnerable app’s broken SSL implementation and intercept cleartext HTTPS traffic – without the Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 6 years5 years ago
iOS 11

iOS Pentesting Tools Part 4: Binary Analysis and Debugging

This post is the 4th and final part a series giving an overview of the most useful iOS app pentesting tools. We will start with an introduction to binary analysis with ‘Hopper’, then we will move into debugging app store Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 6 years6 years ago
Dynamic Analysis

iOS Pentesting Tools Part 3: Frida and Objection

This post is part 3 of a series giving an overview of the most useful iOS app pentesting tools. ‘Frida’ is a dynamic instrumentation tool that is primarily useful for runtime manipulation and dynamic analysis. ‘Objection’, created by Sensepost, is Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 6 years6 years ago
Dynamic Analysis

iOS Pentesting Tools Part 2: Cycript

This post is part 2 of a series giving an overview of the most useful iOS app pentesting tools. ‘Cycript’ is a runtime manipulation tool that is primarily useful for dynamic analysis and exploring the flow of the app you’re Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 6 years6 years ago
Penetration Testing

iOS Bug Hunting – Web View XSS

This post is about a simple, yet potentially dangerous security flaw that I’ve seen several times in iOS apps. I feel this misconfiguration should have more awareness around it – specifically, developers (and bug bounty hunters) should ensure that they Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 6 years6 years ago
iOS 11

iOS Pentesting Tools Part 1: App Decryption and class-dump

This is the first part in a series teaching how to set up and utilize some of the most important tools for iOS app penetration testing. The series will be assuming that the user is using Electra jailbreak. I am Read more…

By Allyson O'Malley, 7 years6 years ago

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