Android Pentesting with AndroGoat
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Android Pentesting # To sharpen my skills, I recently took a deep dive into AndroGoat—a deliberately insecure Android application designed to showcase the most common OWASP Mobile Top 10 vulnerabilities.
In this post, I’ll walk through how I combined both static and dynamic analysis to uncover hardcoded secrets, bypass security checks with Frida, and extract sensitive data from local storage.
My pentesting toolkit:
My pentesting tookit included:
Jadx-GUI: For decompiling and reading Java/Kotlin source code.
The Android Debug Bridge (adb)**: The “command line” for interacting with the emulator on android studio.
Frida: For dynamic instrumentation. Instrumentation is the art of imjecting new functionality to the application at runtime e.