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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

Android and iOS testing across client, storage, transport and API.

End-to-end assessment of Android and iOS applications covering the binary, local storage, transport security and backend APIs.

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Typical timeline
Typically 1–3 weeks per platform
Business benefit
Protect mobile users and the APIs behind them from client-side trust failures.
Industries
Banking & Financial ServicesHealthcareE-CommerceRetailInsuranceStock Market Platforms

Overview

What Mobile Application Penetration Testing covers

A mobile application is a client you do not control. We assess what happens when an attacker owns the device, decompiles the binary and rewrites every request in flight.

Testing follows the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard and always includes the backing APIs, where the highest-impact issues usually live.

The problem we solve

Security controls implemented only in the mobile client can be bypassed. Sensitive data cached on device and weak API authorisation are recurring, high-impact findings.

Scope & outcomes

What we test and what you receive

Scope coverage

  • Static analysis of the compiled binary
  • Insecure local storage and cached artefacts
  • Hardcoded secrets, keys and endpoints
  • Transport security and certificate pinning bypass
  • Root/jailbreak and tamper detection resilience
  • Deep links, IPC and exported components
  • Authentication, biometrics and session handling
  • Backend API authorisation and business logic

Key benefits

  • Reduced risk of data leakage from lost or compromised devices
  • Hardened API layer behind the app
  • App store and compliance readiness evidence
  • Practical remediation for mobile engineering teams

Deliverables

  • Executive summary written for business stakeholders
  • Technical findings with severity, CVSS and reproduction steps
  • Evidence: requests, responses, screenshots and payloads
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
  • Remediation support session with your engineers
  • Re-test report and closure statement

Methodology

Our assessment process

  1. 01

    Scoping and rules of engagement

  2. 02

    Reconnaissance and asset mapping

  3. 03

    Threat modeling against business context

  4. 04

    Automated scanning and coverage checks

  5. 05

    Manual exploitation and chained attack paths

  6. 06

    Impact validation and evidence capture

  7. 07

    Risk analysis and prioritisation

  8. 08

    Reporting, debrief and remediation support

  9. 09

    Re-testing of fixed findings

Tooling

Tools and techniques

Tooling supports expert manual testing — it never replaces it.

Static and dynamic instrumentation frameworks
Decompilation and binary analysis tooling
Runtime hooking for control bypass validation
Proxy-based traffic interception

FAQ

Mobile Application Penetration Testing questions

No. Testing can be black box against release builds. Source access improves coverage and shortens root-cause analysis, so we offer it as an optional grey-box uplift.

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Ready to scope Mobile Application Penetration Testing?

Talk to our offensive security team about scoping an assessment around your actual risk, stack and timelines.

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