---
id: 8226
title: "Attacking Android Applications With Debuggers"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/attacking-android-applications-with-debuggers/"
published_at: "2015-01-19T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "reverse-engineering", "debugging", "dynamic-analysis", "apktool", "mobile-pentesting"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8226"
lang: en
---

# Attacking Android Applications With Debuggers

## Summary

Without root, testers can attach a debugger to Android apps after decompiling with APKTool, stepping through method calls to intercept traffic pre-encryption and capture keys never written to disk.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-01-19T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/attacking-android-applications-with-debuggers/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8226