Android Hacker’s Handbook

The first comprehensive guide to discovering and preventing attacks on the Android OS

As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world’s foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture, the authors examine how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for various system components, preparing you to defend against them.

If you are a mobile device administrator, security researcher, Android app developer, or consultant responsible for evaluating Android security, you will find this guide is essential to your toolbox.

• A crack team of leading Android security researchers explain Android security risks, security design and architecture, rooting, fuzz testing, and vulnerability analysis
• Covers Android application building blocks and security as well as debugging and auditing Android apps
• Prepares mobile device administrators, security researchers, Android app developers, and security consultants to defend Android systems against attack

Android Hacker’s Handbook is the first comprehensive resource for IT professionals charged with smartphone security.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Looking at the Ecosystem
Chapter 2 Android Security Design and Architecture
Chapter 3 Rooting Your Device
Chapter 4 Reviewing Application Security
Chapter 5 Understanding Android’s Attack Surface
Chapter 6 Finding Vulnerabilities with Fuzz Testing
Chapter 7 Debugging and Analyzing Vulnerabilities
Chapter 8 Exploiting User Space Software
Chapter 9 Return Oriented Programming
Chapter 10 Hacking and Attacking the Kernel
Chapter 11 Attacking the Radio Interface Layer
Chapter 12 Exploit Mitigations
Chapter 13 Hardware Attacks
Appendix A Tool Catalog
Appendix B Open Source Repositories
Appendix C References