Network Attacks on Mobile: MITM, SSL Pinning Bypass & Traffic Interception
Network Attacks on Mobile: MITM, SSL Pinning Bypass & Traffic Interception By Security Research Team | Practical Guide TL;DR: Mobile apps are particularly vulnerable to MITM attacks because they operate on untrusted networks. This post covers ARP spoofing, DNS poisoning, SSL pinning bypass with Frida/objection, and traffic analysis with Burp Suite & Wireshark. 1. ARP Spoofing & DNS Poisoning On a local Wi-Fi network, the attacker uses ARP spoofing to associate their MAC address with the gateway's IP. Tools like bettercap and arpspoof make this trivial: # ARP spoof the target and gateway bettercap -eval "set arp.spoof.targets 192.168.1.105; arp.spoof on" echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2. SSL Pinning Bypass Apps implement certificate pinning to lock connections to their specific server certificate. Bypass with Frida : # Universal SSL pinning bypass frida -U -f com.target.app --no-pause -e 'setTimeout(function(){ Java.perform(...