Chapter 6. Analyzing iOS Binary Protections

 

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

 
 --Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In the previous chapter, you learned how to catch and seal sensitive data from getting leaked via side channels such as screenshots, logs, cache, and so on. Now, let's move on to the next level and see what all things can we perform with iOS binary. You can download iOS apps using iTunes and can get its binary by looking into the source location of an application.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Decrypting unsigned iOS applications
  • Decrypting signed iOS applications
  • Analyzing code by reverse engineering
  • Analyzing iOS binary
  • Hardening binary against ...

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