Recently, we have seen a massive increase in malware attacks. Hackers find weak holes (vulnerability) in system or application, exploit them to gain access and ends up infecting them with malware. The attack is usually targeted for huge set of audience i.e. website legitimate users.

Security study has again proved that most of the web application security attacks (approx 85% as per Gartner and NIST) are generated from application layer. It has always been a challenge for developers to validate parameters in URL, HTTP header, HTP request and non-editable fields on the page.

Many times I have encountered a problem with projects where large scanning of network host is required. In that case, you simply cannot expect your consultant to scan each host individually, analyze output and list down all vulnerable ports/services. Yes..we can even detect open ports with Nessus but still it has a host limitation per scan.

It is always been a pain to run Nessus when you have long list of IPs to be scanned within a short period of time. This typically happens when you are engaged in an internal pentest and you have multiple IPs to scan.

Recently, we got an opportunity to do a security hands-on on an Android native application. This application does not communicate to internet via HTTP protocol or mobile browser. The application communicates with the remote server over TCP on some XYZ port.

ColdFusion had several exploits in the past. ColdFusion 10 being the latest and stable release from Adobe it was hard to find any ready exploits.

Recently, I was engaged in testing an android application. The customer generously provided me his new Samsung 750 Tablet with the application installed on it. The application does not interact with any remote server which meant all application data, database schema and files had to be stored locally.

I hope my last post helped you to kick off android application pentest. In this post, I will cover application specific attacks/checks using adb.exe (Android Debug Bridge) from SDK toolkit.

This post covers some more android application specific attacks and tools which may further help you in pentesting your android app.