iOS Tutorial – Dumping the Application Heap from Memory

Ben Tindell covers four iOS SSL pinning bypass techniques with Burp Suite: installing a custom CA, SSLKillSwitch tooling, runtime hooking with Objection and Frida, and patching the IPA binary.

This iOS tutorial automates heap dumping: after decrypting the binary with Clutch and running class-dump-z, generated Cycript scripts pull targeted properties and instance variables from memory.

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.

Some iOS apps ignore system proxy settings by using native websockets. This tutorial combines Wireshark sniffing, DNS spoofing, and a Burp MitM proxy to capture traffic on non-standard ports.

When an iOS app blocks installs below a required version, jailbroken devices can fake ProductVersion in SystemVersion.plist or patch the IPA's plist, plus bypass cert checks via SSL Kill Switch.

SSH-agent holds decrypted keys in memory to spare users passphrases, but root attackers can dump that memory with gdb via ptrace and reconstruct private keys, for fast pivoting to other machines.