Android OS/Phone Security Hardening Guide

In this article, I am going to list down all security features which can be hardened for any Android phone operating system in order to improve the security of user phone. I believe that there are plenty of articles available online for the same, however, they are missing one or other thing. Hence, my try here is to list down every possible feature that we can use to improve Android phone security.

Android Application Backup Vulnerabiility Testing

You must be already knowing about android application backup process. Beauty of this vulnerability is it works on non-rooted devices too sometimes. The vulnerability lies within the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Today we are going to test DIVA (Damn Insecure Vulnerable Application) against this vulnerability. First I had diva-beta.apk file. I unzip that using below command:

Android Anti Java Hooking - Adding Layer to your SSL pinning and Root detection

In this article I am going to highlight the importance of why we must implement anti java hooking technique in our application. What are their advantages and disadvantages.

What is android hooking?

Hooking is a process of injecting malicious payload into existing running process. To illustrate that, assume we have root detection feature in our application. Using rootclock 3rd party application if root detection mechanism can be bypassed. Now mostly all these application which bypasses root detection, ssl pinning etc.. they hook into running application process. So how to be safe against these application? Here comes the android anti java hooking technique.