Hackers of India

Cracking the Mobile Application Source Code

 Sreenarayan Ashokkumar 

2012/08/03

Abstract

Learn how a mobile expert cracks the mobile application source code. While testing / reviewing Android or iOS applications, you will love these tricks which will teach you to extract the source

code of any Mobile Application. Be it Apple provided encryption mechanism or Google Android or Blackberry application, if you have the application, you will learn how to crack the source code. The cracking of the source code reveals the hidden hardcoded secrets, encryption algorithm logics & keys, handshake tokens etc. Using demonstrations on various mobile platforms, the presentation teaches you the tricks of the trade.

Objectives: To learn tested and proven methods of discovering insecurities via dis-assembling the mobile applications. To give live demonstrations for cracking the source code of the various mobile platforms this includes Android, Apple, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. To learn how to utilize the hidden treasures obtained from the source code.