---
id: 8051
title: "Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients: Part 5 – The API"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/thick-application-pentesting/introduction-to-hacking-thick-clients-part-5-the-api/"
published_at: "2020-06-11T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["pentesting", "reverse-engineering", "application-security", "thick-client", "api-monitor", "smoketest"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8051"
lang: en
---

# Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients: Part 5 – The API

## Summary

Thick client series part five covers API monitoring and invocation: API Monitor logs over 500,000 calls during login, and .NET SmokeTest lets testers load assemblies and run individual methods.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2020-06-11T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/thick-application-pentesting/introduction-to-hacking-thick-clients-part-5-the-api/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8051