Securing the Device in Everyone’s Pocket

Billions of people carry a smartphone that holds their messages, their money, and their identity. That makes mobile applications one of the most valuable targets in the digital world. Mobile Penetration Testing trains students to examine Android applications the way an attacker would, then turn those findings into concrete strategies that make apps harder to break.

The course starts by building a solid understanding of the Android environment, its application life cycle, and how applications are published to the world. From there, students move into static analysis, learning to dissect an application without ever running it, followed by dynamic analysis to observe how it behaves in real time. Along the way, they work with established mobile penetration testing standards, ensuring their approach follows industry practice rather than guesswork.

Students then go deeper into the components attackers love most. They explore Android inter-process communication, conduct API penetration testing, and confront SSL pinning, one of the most common obstacles in mobile security assessments. The course closes where every good assessment should, with hardening strategy, teaching students to translate discovered vulnerabilities into practical recommendations that strengthen the application for real users.

What You Will Achieve

Upon completing this course, students will be able to describe the Android application life cycle and its fundamentals, perform both static and dynamic analysis of Android applications, identify API and Android application vulnerabilities, and analyze and recommend hardening strategies for Android applications.

Topics Covered

Introduction to Android Environment, Publishing Android Applications, Android Static Analysis, Mobile Penetration Testing Standards, Android Dynamic Analysis, Android Inter-process Communication (IPC), API Penetration Testing, SSL Pinning, and Android Hardening Strategy.