---
id: 8228
title: "iOS Tutorial – Dumping the Application Heap from Memory"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/ios-tutorial-dumping-the-application-heap-from-memory/"
published_at: "2015-01-05T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["memory-forensics", "ios", "gdb", "mobile-pentesting", "heap-dump"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8228"
lang: en
---

# iOS Tutorial – Dumping the Application Heap from Memory

## Summary

A GDB-based technique dumps an iOS app's runtime heap to recover credentials and keys that should have been deallocated; the released script targets memory sub-regions on iOS 7 and below.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2015-01-05T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/mobile-application-pentesting/ios-tutorial-dumping-the-application-heap-from-memory/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8228