Training | iOS: Application Security and OS Internals

SYNOPSIS

During this training, we will dispense all the knowledge needed to study iOS applications to perform either a security assessment, or a comprehensive reverse engineering. We will focus on the latest versions of iOS (starting from 11). The training heavily relies on practice therefore numerous labs exercises will be done.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Reverse engineers interested in iOS
• Security engineers with no prior experience in iOS but who needs to assess apps or start studying the system.

DURATION

3 days (in-person)

PREREQUISITES

• Familiar with an assembly language
• Familiar with operating system concepts
• Basic knowledge of Python

OBJECTIVES

• Being able to assess or study an iOS application
• Being able to understand or explore most of iOS Userland components

EXERCISES

• Binaries reversing
• Small tools writing

MODULES

Day 1

• Introduction
  • Lab setup

• Applications
  • Architecture
  • Mach-O
  • Shared Cache
  • App Life Cycle
  • Objective-C

Day 2

• App Reverse Engineering & Security
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Static Analysis
  • Dynamic Analysis
  • Security

Day 3

• Daemons & Communications
  • XPC

• iOS Security Mechanisms
  • Code Signing
  • Entitlements
  • Jailbreaks