Android Mobile Penetration Testing Lab

Setting up your own mobile penetration lab

In this guide, I will explain the basics to set up an Android mobile pentesting lab. iOS apps are also susceptible to analysis but it is more accessible to set up an Android lab. Probably in the future, I will write a guide about how to set up and iOS mobile pentesting lab. Anyway, let’s start!!

In order to set up our lab we will need the following elements:

Once of reasons because it is easier to set up an Android pentesting lab is because you have freely accessible emulators. There are also emulators for iOS but in order to perform security analysis, you will need a jailbroken device/emulator.

Android has multiple free emulators, one of the most used is the one shipped with Android Studio, Android Virtual Device (AVD). But I do not recommend to use AVD. AVD images are not rooted by default, and a rooted emulator can give us greater capabilities. You can always root AVD images but it is easiest to use a rooted emulator.

After instaling Nox Player, root the device is as easiest as choosing the option inside System settings.

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