Mobile Application Security Testing

Today, mobile applications have become an integral part of everyday life, ensuring their security is a priority for any company operating in the technology industry. Mobile apps, like their web counterparts, are vulnerable to a number of threats that can lead to privacy breaches, financial losses and loss of user trust. That’s why mobile app security testing is crucial to protect against potential attacks and threats. The following is a comprehensive overview of mobile application penetration testing to identify and address potential security vulnerabilities. The goal of these tests is not only to detect vulnerabilities, but also to understand how a potential attacker could exploit them and provide recommendations for remediation.

Service Description:

Our mobile application penetration testing focuses on identifying and eliminating security vulnerabilities. This process includes gathering system and application information, analyzing permissions and interactions, testing application logic, verifying input and output, analyzing session management, authentication, access control, data processing and storage, applying cryptographic solutions, denial of service attacks, and analyzing error handling. The tests are based on OWASP standards and other industry recommendations.

Penetration testing of mobile applications includes the following:

Stage 1 – Gathering information

• Obtain information about the operating system and application version,
• Identify versions of libraries and frameworks used,
• Vulnerability database review for identified software/library versions,
• Analyze application permissions and interactions with other applications,
• Overview of features and application security, including but not limited to: analysis of user authentication methods, identification of input validation methods.

Stage 2 – Security Tests

• Analysis of application logic (analysis of loss of integrity confidentiality and availability of processed data, accountability of user actions),
• Testing the effectiveness of input validation and output encoding (including attempted API attacks, attempted “Cross App Scripting” attacks, attempted “directory traversal” attacks),
• Analysis of user session management mechanisms in mobile applications,
• Verification of authentication mechanisms in the context of mobile applications,
• Analysis of access control mechanisms in mobile applications,
• Verify data processing and storage mechanisms in device memory and in the cloud,
• Analysis of cryptographic solutions used in mobile applications,
• Denial of service attacks on mobile apps,
• Analysis of error handling mechanisms in mobile applications,
• Verify the configuration of communication protocols used in mobile applications.

Features and Specifications:

The mobile application security testing methodology is based on the recommendations of the OWASP organization and other industry standards, in particular:

• OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide,
• OWASP Mobile Top 10,
• OWASP Mobile Security Cheat Sheet.

Customer benefits:

By using our services, customers are assured that their mobile apps are protected from the latest cyber threats, increasing user confidence and data protection.

For whom it is intended:

The service is aimed at technology companies and mobile application developers who want to ensure the highest level of security for their products.

Application examples:

The service is ideal for companies developing mobile applications for the financial, e-commerce, health sectors, and wherever data security is critical.